Salt's worker process vulnerable to denial of service through file read operation
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 attacker could exploit this vulnerabilities by attempting to read from a filename that will not return any data, e.g. by targeting a pipe node on the proc file system.
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2025-22242US | — | — | ||
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… | ||||
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references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.htmlWEB
- https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.htmlWEB
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-989c-m532-p2hvADVISORY
- https://github.com/saltstack/saltPACKAGE
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/e39116fb87bf4db9bcb9aade8258c66df87d41feWEB
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22242ADVISORY
- https://pypi.org/project/saltPACKAGE
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