MEDIUM 5.6 PyPI
Salt's worker process vulnerable to denial of service through file read operation
GHSA-989c-m532-p2hv · CVE-2025-22242
Published · Modified
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.
References
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22242
- WEB 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
- PACKAGE https://github.com/saltstack/salt
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