CVE-2025-22241 | CVE-2025-22241 salt advisory

File contents overwrite the VirtKey class is called when “on-demand pillar” data is requested and uses un-validated input to create paths to the “pki directory”. The functionality is used to auto-accept Minion authentication keys based on a pre-placed “authorization file” at a specific location and is present in the default configuration.

Published: 2025-06-13 Last update: 2026-04-15 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Deferred，CVE State: published
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CVE-2025-22241 is rated Low Risk (34.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.14%). Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-22241

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 0.03% 0.14% +0.11%
2 2025-11-21 0.06% 0.03% -0.02%
3 2025-11-18 — 0.06% —

Full EPSS history (6 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-22241

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.6 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/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:H)
Even with access, the exploit needs extra luck, timing, or a fussy environment to actually work.
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:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big 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.
 0.3 5.2 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-22241

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2025-22241

GHSA-7f3f-x5f5-79gw · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: pip — Salt's file contents overwrite the VirtKey class

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-22241

vendor priority summary link
alpine medium CVE-2025-22241: 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-2025-22241
suse medium — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-22241/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-22241 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-2025-22241

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-22241

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
No affected products in dataset.

References for CVE-2025-22241

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