CVE-2025-22237: VMware Salt

Medium severity, CVSS 6.7. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An attacker with access to a minion key can exploit the 'on demand' pillar functionality with a specially crafted git url which could cause and arbitrary command to be run on the master with the same privileges as the master process.

Affected products

  • VMware Salt: from 3006, before 3006.12 (fixed in 3006.12); from 3007, before 3007.4 (fixed in 3007.4)

Published 2025-06-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.