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TI-2025-16151 Aliases CVE-2025-22241GHSA-7f3f-x5f5-79gw

CVE-2025-22241 salt advisory

Priority LOW 26CWE-22Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Local
Privileges required
High
User interaction
Required
Attack complexity
High
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00183 7th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed SALT (VMware): 3006.12, 3007.4salt (PyPI): 3007.4, 3006.12

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
VMwareSALT3006.x to before 3006.12; 3007.x to before 3007.43006.12, 3007.4Patch availableCNA
—salt (PyPI)3007.0rc1 to before 3007.43007.4Patch availableGHSA-7f3f-x5f5-79gw
—salt (PyPI)3006.0rc1 to before 3006.123006.12Patch availableGHSA-7f3f-x5f5-79gw
  • SALT VendorVMware Affected 3006.x to before 3006.12; 3007.x to before 3007.4 Fixed in 3006.12, 3007.4 Patch available CNA
  • salt (PyPI) Vendor— Affected 3007.0rc1 to before 3007.4 Fixed in 3007.4 Patch available GHSA-7f3f-x5f5-79gw
  • salt (PyPI) Vendor— Affected 3006.0rc1 to before 3006.12 Fixed in 3006.12 Patch available GHSA-7f3f-x5f5-79gw

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA SALT (VMware) Fixed in 3006.12, 3007.4
  • Fix · GHSA-7f3f-x5f5-79gw salt (PyPI) Fixed in 3007.4 Advisory →
  • Fix · GHSA-7f3f-x5f5-79gw salt (PyPI) Fixed in 3006.12 Advisory →

Fixed in the same release

Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.

  • Release ·

    VMware SALT 3006.12, 3007.4

    11 records Highest priority Priority MEDIUM 1 MEDIUM, 10 LOW

    Other records, highest priority first

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Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Not affected: 1 product
  • Red Hat

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-22241
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-7f3f-x5f5-79gw

References

Advisory 1

Other 4

  • TI-2026-42442 vCenter directory-traversal vulnerability KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2024-26040 Privilege escalation in VMware vCenter Server KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2024-26039 Heap-overflow in VMware vCenter Server KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2024-24610 Out-of-bounds write in VMware vCenter Server KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2023-16914 VMware vCenter Server Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2023-07303 Command injection in Aria Operations for Networks KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
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Sources

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