Medium severity4.2GHSA Advisory· Published Jun 13, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2025-22238
CVE-2025-22238
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.
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Affected packages
Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.
| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|---|---|
saltPyPI | >= 3006.0rc1, < 3006.12 | 3006.12 |
saltPyPI | >= 3007.0rc1, < 3007.4 | 3007.4 |
Affected products
49- ghsa-coords48 versionspkg:pypi/saltpkg:rpm/opensuse/salt&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.6pkg:rpm/opensuse/salt&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/salt-test&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.6pkg:rpm/suse/release-notes-susemanager&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%204.3pkg:rpm/suse/release-notes-susemanager-proxy&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%204.3pkg:rpm/suse/saltbundlepy-core&distro=SUSE:EL-9:Update:Products:SaltBundle:Updatepkg:rpm/suse/saltbundlepy-cython&distro=SUSE:EL-9:Update:Products:SaltBundle:Updatepkg:rpm/suse/saltbundlepy&distro=SUSE:EL-9:Update:Products:SaltBundle:Updatepkg:rpm/suse/saltbundlepy-jinja2&distro=SUSE:EL-9:Update:Products:SaltBundle:Updatepkg:rpm/suse/saltbundlepy-lxml&distro=SUSE:EL-9:Update:Products:SaltBundle:Updatepkg:rpm/suse/saltbundlepy-m2crypto&distro=SUSE:EL-9:Update:Products:SaltBundle:Updatepkg:rpm/suse/saltbundlepy-msgpack&distro=SUSE:EL-9:Update:Products:SaltBundle:Updatepkg:rpm/suse/saltbundlepy-ply&distro=SUSE:EL-9:Update:Products:SaltBundle:Updatepkg:rpm/suse/saltbundlepy-tornado&distro=SUSE:EL-9:Update:Products:SaltBundle:Updatepkg:rpm/suse/saltbundlepy-zypp-plugin&distro=SUSE:EL-9:Update:Products:SaltBundle:Updatepkg:rpm/suse/salt&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207.1pkg:rpm/suse/salt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/salt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/salt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/salt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP5-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/salt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP5-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/salt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.1pkg:rpm/suse/salt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.2pkg:rpm/suse/salt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.3pkg:rpm/suse/salt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.4pkg:rpm/suse/salt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.5pkg:rpm/suse/salt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/salt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/salt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Systems%20Management%2015%20SP7pkg:rpm/suse/salt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Transactional%20Server%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/salt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/salt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/salt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP5-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/salt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/salt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/salt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/salt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Micro%206.0pkg:rpm/suse/salt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Micro%206.1pkg:rpm/suse/salt&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%204.3pkg:rpm/suse/salt&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%204.3pkg:rpm/suse/venv-salt-minion&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Client%20Tools%2012pkg:rpm/suse/venv-salt-minion&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Client%20Tools%2015pkg:rpm/suse/venv-salt-minion&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Client%20Tools%20for%20RHEL,%20Liberty%20and%20Clones%209-CLIENT-TOOLSpkg:rpm/suse/venv-salt-minion&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Client%20Tools%20for%20SLE%20Micro%205pkg:rpm/suse/venv-salt-minion&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%20Module%204.3pkg:rpm/suse/venv-salt-minion&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%20Module%204.3pkg:rpm/suse/venv-salt-minion&distro=SUSE:EL-9:Update:Products:SaltBundle:Update
>= 3006.0rc1, < 3006.12+ 47 more
- (no CPE)range: >= 3006.0rc1, < 3006.12
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-150500.4.55.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-41.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-150500.4.55.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.3.16-150400.3.140.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.3.16-150400.3.98.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.11.11-1.32.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.29.37-1.12.2
- (no CPE)range: < 3.11.11-1.32.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.2-1.12.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.9.4-1.21.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.45.1-1.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.0.7-1.14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.11-1.8.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.3.2-1.12.2
- (no CPE)range: < 0.6.5-1.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-150300.53.94.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-150300.53.94.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-150400.8.80.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-150400.8.80.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-150500.4.55.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-150500.4.55.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-150300.53.94.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-150300.53.94.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-150400.8.80.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-150400.8.80.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-150500.4.55.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-150500.4.55.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-150500.4.55.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-150700.14.5.2
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-150500.4.55.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-150300.53.94.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-150400.8.80.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-150500.4.55.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-150300.53.94.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-150400.8.80.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-150500.4.55.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-13.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-slfo.1.1_4.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-150400.8.80.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-150400.8.80.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-3.76.2
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-150000.3.78.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-1.59.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-150000.3.78.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-150000.3.78.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-150000.3.78.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3006.0-1.59.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
5- github.com/advisories/GHSA-r546-h3ff-q585ghsaADVISORY
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22238ghsaADVISORY
- docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.htmlnvdWEB
- docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.htmlnvdWEB
- github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/4b30218edf1a979855ea191d72b30c89f4a5a582ghsaWEB
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