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CVE-2025-22242 Moderate

Salt's worker process vulnerable to denial of service through file read operation

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 reading. An attacker could exploit this vulnerabilities by attempting to read from a filename that will not return any data, e.g. by targeting a pipe node on the proc file system.

Exploit probability 0.1%
Published July 7, 2026
Required by Not available
Last source change July 7, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

PyPI salt

20 explicit affected versions

PyPI salt

20 explicit affected versions

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities GHSA-989c-m532-p2hv

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 reading. An attacker could exploit this vulnerabilities by attempting to read from a filename that will not return any data, e.g. by targeting a pipe node on the proc file system.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities PYSEC-2026-1896

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 reading. An attacker could exploit this vulnerabilities by attempting to read from a filename that will not return any data, e.g. by targeting a pipe node on the proc file system.

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05 / REFERENCES

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