CVE-2025-22240: VMware Salt

Medium severity, CVSS 6.3. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Arbitrary directory creation or file deletion. In the find_file method of the GitFS class, a path is created using os.path.join using unvalidated input from the “tgt_env” variable. This can be exploited by an attacker to delete any file on the Master's process has permissions to.

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.