CVE-2025-22242
Salt's worker process vulnerable to denial of service through file read operation
5.6
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.30%
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.
How to fix CVE-2025-22242
To remediate CVE-2025-22242, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 3007.4 or later
Is CVE-2025-22242 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.3%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- >= 3007.0rc1, < 3007.4
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H |