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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Medium 6.5
    CVE-2020-11652 Exploited Public exploit EPSS 86%

    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
  • Medium 5.3

    SaltStack Salt Directory Traversal vulnerability in salt-api

    Directory Traversal vulnerability in salt-api in SaltStack Salt before 2017.7.8 and 2018.3.x before 2018.3.3 allows remote attackers to determine which files exist on the server.

  • Medium 6.3

    salt leaks git usernames and passwords to the log

    salt before 2015.5.5 leaks git usernames and passwords to the log.

  • Medium 5.6

    Salt Insecure configuration of PAM external authentication service

    Salt before 2015.5.10 and 2015.8.x before 2015.8.8, when PAM external authentication is enabled, allows attackers to bypass the configured authentication service by passing an alternate service with a command sent to LocalClient.