CVE-2025-22238 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0022.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2025-18252	Salt vulnerable to directory traversal attack in minion file cache creation
Github GHSA	GHSA-r546-h3ff-q585	Salt vulnerable to directory traversal attack in minion file cache creation

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': 0.00128}`	epss `{'score': 0.00162}`

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

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-22
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

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

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		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.
Title		CVE-2025-22238 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': 4.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: vmware

Published: 2025-06-13T06:58:19.550Z

Updated: 2025-06-13T13:55:43.520Z

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

Link: CVE-2025-22238

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-06-13T13:55:04.304Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-06-13T07:15:21.150

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

Link: CVE-2025-22238

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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