CVE-2025-22241: vmware salt Path Traversal
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2025-22241 is a medium (CVSS 5.6) Path Traversal vulnerability in vmware salt. EPSS estimates a 0.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 7.4% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 12 · Related 12Timeline
- 13-06-2025PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 17-06-2025Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
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.
CVSS metrics
4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version- OSV · PypiEcosystem advisory · calculated5.6MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated5.6MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- NVDNIST5.6MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS trend
Probability
0.18%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
7%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 0.18% on 20-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
PyPI1 product
- salt≥ 3007.0rc1, < 3007.4 | ≥ 3006.0rc1, < 3006.12
Ubuntu1 product
- saltAll versions (No fix recorded)
Vmware1 product
- salt≥ 3006.x, < 3006.12 | ≥ 3007.x, < 3007.4
3 vendors · 3 products
References
9 links
- github.com/saltstack/saltPACKAGE
- pypi.org/project/saltPACKAGE