GHSA-7f3f-x5f5-79gw

Salt's file contents overwrite the VirtKey class

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2025-22241

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	salt	>= 3007.0rc1, < 3007.4	3007.4
PyPI	salt	>= 3006.0rc1, < 3006.12	3006.12

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

File contents overwrite the VirtKey class is called when “on-demand pillar” data is requested and uses un-validated input to create paths to the “pki directory”. The functionality is used to auto-accept Minion authentication keys based on a pre-placed “authorization file” at a specific location and is present in the default configuration.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22241 advisory
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/9445f496fed61b15dc4364818007e5b765b0746f web
https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html web
https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html web
https://github.com/saltstack/salt package