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Vulnerability details: VCID-em78-j177-kffg
Vulnerability ID VCID-em78-j177-kffg
Aliases CVE-2025-22237
GHSA-fcr4-h6c4-rvvp
Summary Salt's on demand pillar functionality vulnerable to arbitrary command injections An attacker with access to a minion key can exploit the 'on demand' pillar functionality with a specially crafted git url which could cause and arbitrary command to be run on the master with the same privileges as the master process.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.2
Risk 3.1
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
epss 0.0011 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2025-22237
cvssv3.1 6.7 https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html
generic_textual MODERATE https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html
ssvc Track https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html
cvssv3.1 6.7 https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html
generic_textual MODERATE https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html
ssvc Track https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html
cvssv3.1 6.7 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3.1 6.7 https://github.com/saltstack/salt
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/saltstack/salt
cvssv3.1 6.7 https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/9445f496fed61b15dc4364818007e5b765b0746f
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/9445f496fed61b15dc4364818007e5b765b0746f
cvssv3.1 6.7 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22237
generic_textual MODERATE https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22237
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2025-22237
https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html
https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://github.com/saltstack/salt
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/9445f496fed61b15dc4364818007e5b765b0746f
CVE-2025-22237 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22237
GHSA-fcr4-h6c4-rvvp https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fcr4-h6c4-rvvp
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-06-14T03:56:05Z/ Found at https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-06-14T03:56:05Z/ Found at https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://github.com/saltstack/salt
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/9445f496fed61b15dc4364818007e5b765b0746f
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22237
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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.28947
EPSS Score 0.0011
Published At June 5, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-04T16:24:12.168317+00:00 GitLab Importer Import https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/pypi/salt/CVE-2025-22237.yml 38.6.0