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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-18248 Salt's worker process vulnerable to denial of service through file read operation
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-989c-m532-p2hv Salt's worker process vulnerable to denial of service through file read operation
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History

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

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00026}

epss

{'score': 0.00032}


Tue, 17 Jun 2025 18:15:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-400

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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

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Description 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.
Title CVE-2025-22242 salt advisory
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.6, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: vmware

Published:

Updated: 2025-06-17T17:25:29.513Z

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

Link: CVE-2025-22242

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-06-13T15:24:01.021Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-06-13T07:15:21.710

Modified: 2025-06-17T18:15:25.180

Link: CVE-2025-22242

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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