GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-989c-m532-p2hv Salt's worker process vulnerable to denial of service through file read operation

MEDIUM Published 2025-06-13 Modified 2025-06-13 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2025-22242
Ecosystem
PyPI
Packages
salt
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-770
Reviewed
2025-06-13

Affected packages

• PyPI salt: >= 3007.0rc1, < 3007.4 → fixed in 3007.4 • PyPI salt: >= 3006.0rc1, < 3006.12 → fixed in 3006.12

Description

Worker process denial of service through file read operation. .A vulnerability exists in the Master's “pub_ret” method which is exposed to all minions. The un-sanitized input value “jid” is used to construct a path which is then opened for reading. An attacker could exploit this vulnerabilities by attempting to read from a filename that will not return any data, e.g. by targeting a pipe node on the proc file system.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2025-22242 Worker process denial of service through file read operation. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

References