CVE-2025-62348 (GCVE-0-2025-62348)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-30 18:57 – Updated: 2026-01-31 04:56
VLAI?
Title
Salt junos module uses an unsafe YAML loader which may allow unintended code execution
Summary
Salt's junos execution module contained an unsafe YAML decode/load usage. A specially crafted YAML payload processed by the junos module could lead to unintended code execution under the context of the Salt process.
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.3 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Salt Project Salt Affected: 3006.0 , < 3006.17 (semver)
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    Salt Project Salt Affected: 3007.0 , < 3007.9 (semver)
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Credits
Amr Kadry
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