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CVE-2025-22240 (GCVE-0-2025-22240)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-13 07:03 – Updated: 2025-06-13 13:42
VLAI
Title
CVE-2025-22240 salt advisory
Summary
Arbitrary directory creation or file deletion. In the find_file method of the GitFS class, a path is created using os.path.join using unvalidated input from the “tgt_env” variable. This can be exploited by an attacker to delete any file on the Master's process has permissions to.
Severity
6.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-06-13 13:40 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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