CVE-2025-22238: VMware Salt

Medium severity, CVSS 4.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

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.