Improper Validation of Specified Type of Input Affecting salt package, versions [,3006.12)[3007.0rc1,3007.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-SALT-10350581
  • published16 Jun 2025
  • disclosed13 Jun 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Jun 2025

NewCVE-2025-22242  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1287  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade salt to version 3006.12, 3007.4 or higher.

Overview

salt is a new approach to infrastructure management built on a dynamic communication bus. Salt can be used for data-driven orchestration, remote execution for any infrastructure, configuration management for any app stack, and much more.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Validation of Specified Type of Input via the pub_ret method due to unsanitized input in the jid parameter used to construct file paths. An attacker can cause the worker process to become unresponsive or crash by supplying a crafted value that targets a special file, such as a pipe node in the proc file system, resulting in a denial of service.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1