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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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "salt"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "3006.0rc1"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3006.12"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "salt"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "3007.0rc1"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3007.4"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-22238"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-22"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2025-06-13T21:20:12Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-06-13T07:15:21Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "Directory traversal attack in minion file cache creation. The master\u0027s default cache is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack. Which could be leveraged to write or overwrite \u0027cache\u0027 files outside of the cache directory.",
  "id": "GHSA-r546-h3ff-q585",
  "modified": "2025-06-13T21:20:12Z",
  "published": "2025-06-13T09:30:33Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22238"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/4b30218edf1a979855ea191d72b30c89f4a5a582"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/saltstack/salt"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Salt vulnerable to directory traversal attack in minion file cache creation"
}


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