CVE-2025-22242 | CVE-2025-22242 salt advisory

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.

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-2025-22242 is rated Moderate Risk (41.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.30%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-22242

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 2026-05-11 0.13% 0.30% +0.17%
2 2026-04-09 0.03% 0.13% +0.10%
3 2025-11-09 — 0.03% —

Full EPSS history (5 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-22242

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:N/A:H 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:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 0.3 5.2 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-22242

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2025-22242

GHSA-989c-m532-p2hv · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: pip — Salt's worker process vulnerable to denial of service through file read operation

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-22242

vendor priority summary link
alpine medium CVE-2025-22242: 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-2025-22242
suse medium — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-22242/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-22242 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-2025-22242

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-22242

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
No affected products in dataset.

References for CVE-2025-22242

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