Bug 2372696 (CVE-2025-22238)

Summary: CVE-2025-22238 salt: Directory traversal in salt project
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A directory traversal flaw has been discovered in the salt project. The master node's default cache may be accessible to attacker input which may be leveraged to manipulate files on the host disk.
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Bug Depends On: 2372767, 2372772, 2372777, 2372769    
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-13 15:01:10 UTC
Directory traversal attack in minion file cache creation. The master's default cache is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack. Which could be leveraged to write or overwrite 'cache' files outside of the cache directory.