CVE-2025-22242 Affecting salt-master package, versions <3006.0-150400.8.80.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-SALTMASTER-10906101
  • published24 Jul 2025
  • disclosed23 Jul 2025

Introduced: 23 Jul 2025

CVE-2025-22242  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 salt-master to version 3006.0-150400.8.80.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream salt-master package and not the salt-master package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.4 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1