What is CVE-2025-22238?

CVE-2025-22238 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Vmware Salt. CVSS score: 4.2/10. Published 2025-06-13.

How severe is CVE-2025-22238?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.2 out of 10.

Is CVE-2025-22238 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Vmware Salt

CVE-2025-22238

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.

EPSS: 0.003 (57.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.2 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Vmware Salt — versions 3006.x, 3007.x

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ARPSyndicate/cve-scores

References

docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html
docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-22238?: CVE-2025-22238 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Vmware Salt. CVSS score: 4.2/10. Published 2025-06-13.
How severe is CVE-2025-22238?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.2 out of 10.
Is CVE-2025-22238 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.