CVE-2025-22240: Salt allows arbitrary directory creation or file deletion

June 13, 2025

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.

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-xh32-3m67-qjgf
github.com/saltstack/salt
github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/f7c28ffbf18dbf693a15b1ba9493918de3e88cf3
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22240

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