GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-989c-m532-p2hv Salt's worker process vulnerable to denial of service through file read operation
MEDIUM
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- 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
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22242 advisory
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/e39116fb87bf4db9bcb9aade8258c66df87d41fe web
- https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html web
- https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html web
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt package