CVE-2022-22967: SaltStack Salt

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt in versions before 3002.9, 3003.5, 3004.2. PAM auth fails to reject locked accounts, which allows a previously authorized user whose account is locked still run Salt commands when their account is locked. This affects both local shell accounts with an active session and salt-api users that authenticate via PAM eauth.

Affected products

• SaltStack Salt: before 3002.9 (fixed in 3002.9); from 3003, before 3003.5 (fixed in 3003.5); from 3004, before 3004.2 (fixed in 3004.2)

Published 2022-06-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.