TI-2025-16152 Aliases CVE-2025-22242 GHSA-989c-m532-p2hv

CVE-2025-22242 salt advisory

LOW 24CWE-400Published 2025-06-13 · Updated 2025-06-17

Key facts

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

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-400.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00139 3rd 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: Partial

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

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
VMware	SALT	3006.x to before 3006.12; 3007.x to before 3007.4	3006.12, 3007.4	Patch available	CNA
—	salt (PyPI)	3007.0rc1 to before 3007.4	3007.4	Patch available	GHSA-989c-m532-p2hv
—	salt (PyPI)	3006.0rc1 to before 3006.12	3006.12	Patch available	GHSA-989c-m532-p2hv

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-989c-m532-p2hv
salt (PyPI) Vendor— Affected 3006.0rc1 to before 3006.12 Fixed in 3006.12 Patch available GHSA-989c-m532-p2hv

Remediation

Fix · CNA SALT (VMware) Fixed in 3006.12, 3007.4
Fix · GHSA-989c-m532-p2hv salt (PyPI) Fixed in 3007.4 Advisory →
Fix · GHSA-989c-m532-p2hv 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 · 2025-06-13
VMware SALT 3006.12, 3007.4
11 records Highest priority Priority MEDIUM 1 MEDIUM, 10 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2024-26051 CVE-2024-38824 salt advisoryPriority MEDIUM 45
- TI-2025-16146 CVE-2025-22236 salt advisoryPriority LOW 36
- TI-2025-16149 CVE-2025-22239 salt advisoryPriority LOW 34
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Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Not affected: 1 product

Red Hat

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-22242
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-989c-m532-p2hv

References

Advisory 1

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22242

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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