What is CVE-2025-22240?

CVE-2025-22240 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Vmware Salt. CVSS score: 6.3/10. Published 2025-06-13.

How severe is CVE-2025-22240?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.3 out of 10.

Is CVE-2025-22240 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-2025-22240

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…

EPSS: 0.001 (26.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

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-2025-22240?: CVE-2025-22240 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Vmware Salt. CVSS score: 6.3/10. Published 2025-06-13.
How severe is CVE-2025-22240?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.3 out of 10.
Is CVE-2025-22240 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.