CVE-2025-22241: VMware Salt

Medium severity, CVSS 5.6. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

File contents overwrite the VirtKey class is called when “on-demand pillar” data is requested and uses un-validated input to create paths to the “pki directory”. The functionality is used to auto-accept Minion authentication keys based on a pre-placed “authorization file” at a specific location and is present in the default configuration.

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.