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High 7.8
Salt junos module uses an unsafe YAML loader which may allow unintended code execution
Salt's junos execution module contained an unsafe YAML decode/load usage. A specially crafted YAML payload processed by the junos module could lead to unintended code execution under the context of the Salt process.
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Critical 9.6
CVE-2024-38824 salt advisory
Directory traversal vulnerability in recv_file method allows arbitrary files to be written to the master cache directory.
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Medium 5.6
CVE-2025-22242 salt advisory
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 attacke…
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Medium 5.6
CVE-2025-22241 salt advisory
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 “author…
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Medium 6.3
CVE-2025-22240 salt advisory
Arbitrary directory creation or file deletion. In the find_file method of the GitFS class, a path is created using os.path.join using unvalidated input from the “tgt_env” variable. This can be exploited by an attacker to delete any file on the Master's proces…
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High 8.1
CVE-2025-22239 salt advisory
Arbitrary event injection on Salt Master. The master's "_minion_event" method can be used by and authorized minion to send arbitrary events onto the master's event bus.
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Medium 4.2
CVE-2025-22238 salt advisory
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.
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Medium 6.7
CVE-2025-22237 salt advisory
An attacker with access to a minion key can exploit the 'on demand' pillar functionality with a specially crafted git url which could cause and arbitrary command to be run on the master with the same privileges as the master process.
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High 8.1
CVE-2025-22236 salt advisory
Minion event bus authorization bypass. An attacker with access to a minion key can craft a message which may be able to execute a job on other minions (>= 3007.0).
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Medium 6.4
CVE-2024-38825 Salt Advisory
The salt.auth.pki module does not properly authenticate callers. The "password" field contains a public certificate which is validated against a CA certificate by the module. This is not pki authentication, as the caller does not need access to the correspond…
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Low 2.7
CVE-2024-38823 Salt Advisory
Salt's request server is vulnerable to replay attacks when not using a TLS encrypted transport.
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Low 2.7
CVE-2024-38822 Salt Advisory
Multiple methods in the salt master skip minion token validation. Therefore a misbehaving minion can impersonate another minion.
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Medium 6.7
Salt security advisory release - 2023-OCT-27
The Salt-SSH pre-flight option copies the script to the target at a predictable path, which allows an attacker to force Salt-SSH to run their script. If an attacker has access to the target VM and knows the path to the pre-flight script before it runs they ca…
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High 7.7
Specially crafted url can be created which leads to a directory traversal in the salt file server
A specially crafted url can be created which leads to a directory traversal in the salt file server. A malicious user can read an arbitrary file from a Salt master’s filesystem.
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Medium 5.0
Syndic cache directory creation is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack
Syndic cache directory creation is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack in salt project which can lead a malicious attacker to create an arbitrary directory on a Salt master.
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Medium 4.2
Salt can cause Git Providers to get wrong data
Git Providers can read from the wrong environment because they get the same cache directory base name in Salt masters prior to 3005.2 or 3006.2. Anything that uses Git Providers with different environments can get garbage data or the wrong data, which can lea…
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Medium 5.3
Salt vulnerable to denial of service
Salt masters prior to 3005.2 or 3006.2 contain a DOS in minion return. After receiving several bad packets on the request server equal to the number of worker threads, the master will become unresponsive to return requests until restarted.
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Medium 6.1
Open redirect in Tornado
Open redirect vulnerability in Tornado versions 6.3.1 and earlier allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to redirect a user to an arbitrary web site and conduct a phishing attack by having user access a specially crafted URL.
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High 8.8
Salt's PAM auth fails to reject locked accounts
An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt in versions before 3002.9, 3003.5, 3004.2. PAM auth fails to reject locked accounts, which allows a previously authorized user whose account is locked still run Salt commands when their account is locked. This affects…
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High 8.8
SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay
An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt in versions before 3002.8, 3003.4, 3004.1. Job publishes and file server replies are susceptible to replay attacks, which can result in an attacker replaying job publishes causing minions to run old jobs. File server …
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High 8.8
SaltStack Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt in versions before 3002.8, 3003.4, 3004.1. Salt Masters do not sign pillar data with the minion’s public key, which can result in attackers substituting arbitrary pillar data.
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Low 3.7
SaltStack Salt Improper Authentication via Man in the Middle Attack
An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt in versions before 3002.8, 3003.4, 3004.1. A minion authentication denial of service can cause a MiTM attacker to force a minion process to stop by impersonating a master.
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High 8.8
SaltStack Salt Permissions Bypass
An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt in versions before 3002.8, 3003.4, 3004.1. When configured as a Master-of-Masters, with a publisher_acl, if a user configured in the publisher_acl targets any minion connected to the Syndic, the Salt Master incorrectl…
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High 7.5
Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere in salt
An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3003.3. A user who has control of the source, and source_hash URLs can gain full file system access as root on a salt minion.
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High 7.8
Command Injection in SaltStack Salt
In SaltStack Salt 2016.9 through 3002.6, a command injection vulnerability exists in the snapper module that allows for local privilege escalation on a minion. The attack requires that a file is created with a pathname that is backed up by snapper, and that t…
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High 7.4
SaltStack Salt Improper SSL Certificate Validation
In SaltStack Salt before 3002.5, when authenticating to services using certain modules, the SSL certificate is not always validated.
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High 7.8CVE-2020-28243 Public exploit
SaltStack Salt command injection via a crafted process name
An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The minion's restartcheck is vulnerable to command injection via a crafted process name. This allows for a local privilege escalation by any user able to create a files on the minion in a non-blackliste…
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Medium 5.9
SaltStack Salt Improper Certificate Validation
In SaltStack Salt before 3002.5, authentication to VMware vcenter, vsphere, and esxi servers (in the vmware.py files) does not always validate the SSL/TLS certificate.
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Critical 9.8CVE-2021-3197 EPSS 72%
SaltStack Salt is vulnerable to shell injection via ProxyCommand argument
An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The salt-api's ssh client is vulnerable to a shell injection by including ProxyCommand in an argument, or via ssh_options provided in an API request.
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Critical 9.8
SaltStack Salt command injection in the Salt-API when using the Salt-SSH client
An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. Sending crafted web requests to the Salt API can result in salt.utils.thin.gen_thin() command injection because of different handling of single versus double quotes. This is related to salt/utils/thin.p…
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Critical 9.8CVE-2021-25283 EPSS 10%
SaltStack Salt Server Side Template Injection
An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The jinja renderer does not protect against server side template injection attacks.
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Medium 4.4
SaltStack Salt Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information via cmdmod
An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. salt.modules.cmdmod can log credentials to the info or error log level.
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Critical 9.8
SaltStack Salt Improper Authentication vulnerability
An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. salt-api does not honor eauth credentials for the wheel_async client. Thus, an attacker can remotely run any wheel modules on the master.
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Critical 9.1
SaltStack Salt Directory Traversal vulnerability
An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The salt.wheel.pillar_roots.write method is vulnerable to directory traversal.
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Critical 9.8
SaltStack Salt Improper Validation of eauth credentials and tokens in salt-netapi
In SaltStack Salt through 3002, salt-netapi improperly validates eauth credentials and tokens. A user can bypass authentication and invoke Salt SSH.
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Medium 5.5
SaltStack Salt Allows creating certificates with weak file permissions
The TLS module within SaltStack Salt through 3002 creates certificates with weak file permissions.
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Critical 9.8
SaltStack Salt Command Injection in netapi ssh client
An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt through 3002. Sending crafted web requests to the Salt API, with the SSH client enabled, can result in shell injection.
KEV Nov 3, 2021 -
Medium 6.5
SaltStack Salt is vulnerable Arbitrary Directory Access
An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 2019.2.4 and 3000 before 3000.2. The salt-master process ClearFuncs class allows access to some methods that improperly sanitize paths. These methods allow arbitrary directory access to authenticated users.
KEV Nov 3, 2021 -
Critical 9.8
SaltStack Salt Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 2019.2.4 and 3000 before 3000.2. The salt-master process ClearFuncs class does not properly validate method calls. This allows a remote user to access some methods without authentication. These methods can be u…
KEV Nov 3, 2021 -
Critical 9.8CVE-2019-17361 EPSS 15%
SaltStack Salt is vulnerable to command injection
In SaltStack Salt through 2019.2.0, the salt-api NET API with the ssh client enabled is vulnerable to command injection. This allows an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the API endpoint to execute arbitrary code on the salt-api host.