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ghsa-7f3f-x5f5-79gw

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-06-13 09:30

Modified

2025-06-17 20:00

Severity ?

5.6 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Summary

Salt's file contents overwrite the VirtKey class

Details

File contents overwrite the VirtKey class is called when “on-demand pillar” data is requested and uses un-validated input to create paths to the “pki directory”. The functionality is used to auto-accept Minion authentication keys based on a pre-placed “authorization file” at a specific location and is present in the default configuration.

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CVE-2025-22241 (GCVE-0-2025-22241)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-06-13 07:04

Modified

2025-06-17 17:26

Severity ?

5.6 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html
	https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	VMware	SALT	Version: 3006.x Version: 3007.x

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Author	Source	Type	Date

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