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FKIE_CVE-2025-22239

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-06-13 07:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 08:45

Severity

8.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L

Summary

Arbitrary event injection on Salt Master. The master's "_minion_event" method can be used by and authorized minion to send arbitrary events onto the master's event bus.

References

	URL	Tags
	security@vmware.com	https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html
	security@vmware.com	https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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CVE-2025-22239 (GCVE-0-2025-22239)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-13 07:00 – Updated: 2025-06-13 13:53

Title

CVE-2025-22239 salt advisory

Summary

Arbitrary event injection on Salt Master. The master's "_minion_event" method can be used by and authorized minion to send arbitrary events onto the master's event bus.

Severity

8.1 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-06-13 13:50 UTC

CWE

CWE-285 - Improper Authorization

Assigner

vmware mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releas…
https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releas…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
VMware	SALT	Affected: 3006.x , < 3006.12 (lts) Affected: 3007.x , < 3007.4 (sts)

Date Public

2025-06-12 07:33

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Sightings

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