CVSS 3.1
4.2 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NCVE-2025-22238
Medium (4.2). EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in salt 3006.12, 3007.4.
Directory traversal attack in minion file cache creation. The master's default cache is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack. Which could be leveraged to write or overwrite 'cache' files outside of the cache directory.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 21% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-22
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-r546-h3ff-q585 | PyPI | salt | >=3006.0rc1 <3006.12 | 3006.12 |
| GHSA-r546-h3ff-q585 | PyPI | salt | >=3007.0rc1 <3007.4 | 3007.4 |
| PYSEC-2026-1901 | PyPI | salt | >=3006.0rc1 <3006.12 >=3007.0rc1 <3007.4 | 3006.12, 3007.4 |