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CVE-2025-22238 (GCVE-0-2025-22238)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-13 06:58 – Updated: 2025-06-13 13:55
VLAI
Title
CVE-2025-22238 salt advisory
Summary
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.
Severity
4.2 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-06-13 13:54 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
VMware SALT Affected: 3006.x , < 3006.12 (lts)
Affected: 3007.x , < 3007.4 (sts)
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Date Public
2025-06-12 07:33
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