saltstack/salt · Security
Salt's worker process vulnerable to denial of service through file read operation
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-989c-m532-p2hv
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-22242
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 5.6 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 5.6 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Description
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.
CWEs
- CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22242 ↗
- https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html ↗
- https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html ↗
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/e39116fb87bf4db9bcb9aade8258c66df87d41fe ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-989c-m532-p2hv ↗