CVE-2025-22238 | CVE-2025-22238 salt advisory

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.

Published: 2025-06-13 Last update: 2026-06-17 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Deferred，CVE State: published
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CVE-2025-22238 is rated Low Risk (37/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.34%). Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-22238

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-04-09 0.15% 0.34% +0.19%
2 2026-02-27 0.13% 0.15% +0.02%
3 2025-11-21 — 0.13% —

Full EPSS history (7 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-22238

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.2 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:H)
They need powerful rights—admin, root, or similar—before this pays off.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:H)
They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 0.6 3.6 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-22238

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2025-22238

GHSA-r546-h3ff-q585 · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: pip — Salt vulnerable to directory traversal attack in minion file cache creation

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-22238

vendor priority summary link
alpine medium CVE-2025-22238: 1 source package rows (salt); 8 state rows across 2 repos (3.22-community, edge-community); fixed 0, open 8. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-22238
suse medium — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-22238/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-22238 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (salt), 9 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, jammy, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 4, needs-triage 3, needed 1, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-22238

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-22238

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
No affected products in dataset.

References for CVE-2025-22238

cvelogic Threat Intelligence