CVE-2025-22240

published 2025-06-13

CVE-2025-22240: 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…

Priority P4 30 medium 6.3 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC H PR H UI R S U C H I H A H

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.

Affected

4 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
saltstack	salt	>= 3006.0rc1 < 3006.12	3006.12
saltstack	salt	>= 3007.0rc1 < 3007.4	3007.4
vmware	salt	>= 3006.x < 3006.12	3006.12
vmware	salt	>= 3007.x < 3007.4	3007.4

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 6.3 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

osv 6.3 MEDIUM

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