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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.

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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 …

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • High 7.8
    CVE-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…

  • High 7.5

    SaltStack Salt Denial of Service via a crafted authentication request

    SaltStack Salt before 2016.3.8, 2016.11.x before 2016.11.8, and 2017.7.x before 2017.7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted authentication request.

  • High 8.8

    SaltStack Salt arbitrary command execution in Salt-api via ssh_client

    Salt-api in SaltStack Salt before 2015.8.13, 2016.3.x before 2016.3.5, and 2016.11.x before 2016.11.2 allows arbitrary command execution on a salt-master via Salt's ssh_client.

  • High 8.8

    SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass when using the local_batch client from salt-api

    When using the local_batch client from salt-api in SaltStack Salt before 2015.8.13, 2016.3.x before 2016.3.5, and 2016.11.x before 2016.11.2, external authentication is not respected, enabling all authentication to be bypassed.

  • High —

    SaltStack Salt Insecure Temporary File Creation

    Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Salt (aka SaltStack) before 2014.1.10 allow local users to have an unspecified impact via vectors related to temporary file creation in (1) seed.py, (2) salt-ssh, or (3) salt-cloud.