CVE-2025-22236 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Minion event bus authorization bypass. An attacker with access to a minion key can craft a message which may be able to execute a job on other minions (>= 3007.0).

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00027.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2025-18254	Salt has minion event bus authorization bypass vulnerability
Github GHSA	GHSA-jh7c-xh74-h76f	Salt has minion event bus authorization bypass vulnerability

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html
https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html

History

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.0002}`	epss `{'score': 0.00024}`

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-287
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 07:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		Minion event bus authorization bypass. An attacker with access to a minion key can craft a message which may be able to execute a job on other minions (>= 3007.0).
Title		CVE-2025-22236 salt advisory
References		https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 8.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: vmware

Published: 2025-06-13T06:53:04.233Z

Updated: 2025-06-13T14:00:25.435Z

Reserved: 2025-01-02T04:30:06.833Z

Link: CVE-2025-22236

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-06-13T14:00:21.853Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-06-13T07:15:20.863

Modified: 2025-06-16T12:32:18.840

Link: CVE-2025-22236

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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