In short
- CVE-2025-22238 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.2) vulnerability affecting salt.
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.29%, higher than 21.7% of all vulnerabilities.
- Fix: update to 3006.12, 3007.4 or later.
| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|
| salt PyPI | ≥ 3006.0rc1, < 3006.12≥ 3007.0rc1, < 3007.4
| 3006.123007.4
|
Description
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.
NVD description
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.
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