CVE-2025-22242: VMware Salt

Medium severity, CVSS 5.6. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Worker process denial of service through file read operation. .A vulnerability exists in the Master's “pub_ret” method which is exposed to all minions. The un-sanitized input value “jid” is used to construct a path which is then opened for reading. An attacker could exploit this vulnerabilities by attempting to read from a filename that will not return any data, e.g. by targeting a pipe node on the proc file system.

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.