GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-xh32-3m67-qjgf Salt allows arbitrary directory creation or file deletion
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2025-22240
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- salt
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
- 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
Arbitrary directory creation or file deletion. In the find_file method of the GitFS class, a path is created using os.path.join using unvalidated input from the “tgt_env” variable. This can be exploited by an attacker to delete any file on the Master's process has permissions to.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-22240 Arbitrary directory creation or file deletion. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22240 advisory
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/f7c28ffbf18dbf693a15b1ba9493918de3e88cf3 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