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.

• CWE-22

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

Published

Jun 13, 2025

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Deferred

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