CVE-2025-22236: Salt has minion event bus authorization bypass vulnerability

June 13, 2025

Minion event bus authorization bypass. An attacker with access to a minion key can craft a message which may be able to execute a job on other minions (>= 3007.0).

References

docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html
docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html
github.com/advisories/GHSA-jh7c-xh74-h76f
github.com/saltstack/salt
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22236

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