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Vulnerability details: VCID-sc4b-v7j2-byed
Vulnerability ID VCID-sc4b-v7j2-byed
Aliases CVE-2025-22238
GHSA-r546-h3ff-q585
Summary Salt vulnerable to directory traversal attack in minion file cache creation 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.2
Risk 3.1
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
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 0.00344 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2025-22238
cvssv3.1 4.2 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 4.2 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 4.4 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3.1 4.2 https://github.com/saltstack/salt
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/saltstack/salt
cvssv3.1 4.2 https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/4b30218edf1a979855ea191d72b30c89f4a5a582
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/4b30218edf1a979855ea191d72b30c89f4a5a582
cvssv3.1 4.2 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22238
generic_textual MODERATE https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22238
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2025-22238
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/4b30218edf1a979855ea191d72b30c89f4a5a582
CVE-2025-22238 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22238
GHSA-r546-h3ff-q585 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r546-h3ff-q585
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N Found at https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-06-13T13:54:45Z/ Found at https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N Found at https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-06-13T13:54:45Z/ 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:N/I:H/A:N 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:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N Found at https://github.com/saltstack/salt
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N Found at https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/4b30218edf1a979855ea191d72b30c89f4a5a582
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22238
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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.5732
EPSS Score 0.00344
Published At June 5, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-04T16:24:12.387456+00:00 GitLab Importer Import https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/pypi/salt/CVE-2025-22238.yml 38.6.0