CVE-2022-22936: SaltStack Salt

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt in versions before 3002.8, 3003.4, 3004.1. Job publishes and file server replies are susceptible to replay attacks, which can result in an attacker replaying job publishes causing minions to run old jobs. File server replies can also be re-played. A sufficient craft attacker could gain root access on minion under certain scenarios.

Affected products

• SaltStack Salt: from 3002, before 3002.8 (fixed in 3002.8); from 3003, before 3003.4 (fixed in 3003.4); from 3004, before 3004.1 (fixed in 3004.1)

Published 2022-03-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.