What is CVE-2025-22242?

CVE-2025-22242 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Vmware Salt. CVSS score: 5.6/10. Published 2025-06-13.

How severe is CVE-2025-22242?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.6 out of 10.

Is CVE-2025-22242 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-2025-22242

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…

EPSS: 0.003 (53.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.6 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/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-2025-22242?: CVE-2025-22242 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Vmware Salt. CVSS score: 5.6/10. Published 2025-06-13.
How severe is CVE-2025-22242?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.6 out of 10.
Is CVE-2025-22242 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.