CVE-2025-22238
Salt vulnerable to directory traversal attack in minion file cache creation
4.2
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.34%
Description
Directory traversal attack in minion file cache creation. The master's default cache is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack. Which could be leveraged to write or overwrite 'cache' files outside of the cache directory.
How to fix CVE-2025-22238
To remediate CVE-2025-22238, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 3006.12 or later
Is CVE-2025-22238 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.3%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- >= 3006.0rc1, < 3006.12
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM4.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |