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Vulnerability details: VCID-yt34-n551-1uau
Vulnerability ID VCID-yt34-n551-1uau
Aliases CVE-2025-22242
GHSA-989c-m532-p2hv
Summary Salt's worker process vulnerable to denial of service through file read operation 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.2
Risk 3.1
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
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 0.00303 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2025-22242
cvssv3.1 5.6 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 5.6 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 5.6 https://github.com/saltstack/salt
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/saltstack/salt
cvssv3.1 5.6 https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/e39116fb87bf4db9bcb9aade8258c66df87d41fe
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/e39116fb87bf4db9bcb9aade8258c66df87d41fe
cvssv3.1 5.6 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22242
generic_textual MODERATE https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22242
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=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://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://github.com/saltstack/salt
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/e39116fb87bf4db9bcb9aade8258c66df87d41fe
CVE-2025-22242 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22242
GHSA-989c-m532-p2hv https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-989c-m532-p2hv
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/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:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-06-13T15:23:55Z/ Found at https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/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:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-06-13T15:23:55Z/ 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:N/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:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H Found at https://github.com/saltstack/salt
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H Found at https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/e39116fb87bf4db9bcb9aade8258c66df87d41fe
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22242
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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.53961
EPSS Score 0.00303
Published At June 5, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-04T16:24:12.555146+00:00 GitLab Importer Import https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/pypi/salt/CVE-2025-22242.yml 38.6.0