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CVE-2025-22242 (GCVE-0-2025-22242)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-13 07:08 – Updated: 2025-06-17 17:25
VLAI
Title
CVE-2025-22242 salt advisory
Summary
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.
Severity
5.6 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-06-13 15:23 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
VMware SALT Affected: 3006.x , < 3006.12 (lts)
Affected: 3007.x , < 3007.4 (sts)
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Date Public
2025-06-12 07:33
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