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ghsa-r546-h3ff-q585

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-06-13 09:30

Modified

2025-06-13 21:20

Severity ?

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

Summary

Salt vulnerable to directory traversal attack in minion file cache creation

Details

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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  "modified": "2025-06-13T21:20:12Z",
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CVE-2025-22238 (GCVE-0-2025-22238)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-06-13 06:58

Modified

2025-06-13 13:55

Severity ?

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