saltstack/salt · Security
Salt Authentication Protocol Version Downgrade Allows Minion Impersonation
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-vcf3-26xf-fw4m
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-62349
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 6.2 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
- CVSS v3
- 6.2 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
- CVSS v4
- 7.5 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
Salt contains an authentication protocol version downgrade weakness that can allow a malicious minion to bypass newer authentication/security features by using an older request payload format, enabling minion impersonation and circumventing protections introduced in response to prior issues.
CWEs
- CWE-287 · Improper Authentication
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-62349 ↗
- https://docs.saltproject.io/en/latest/topics/releases/3006.17.html ↗
- https://docs.saltproject.io/en/latest/topics/releases/3007.9.html ↗
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/68467 ↗
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/3d5708acae16d039a1e2b5529c8e14a0d3255611 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vcf3-26xf-fw4m ↗