Salt allows arbitrary directory creation or file deletion
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 the Master's process has permissions to.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
20 explicit affected versions
20 explicit affected versions
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
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 the Master's process has permissions to.
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 the Master's process has permissions to.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html
- https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/f7c28ffbf18dbf693a15b1ba9493918de3e88cf3
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22240
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xh32-3m67-qjgf
- https://pypi.org/project/salt