{"id":"PYSEC-2026-1896","summary":"Salt's worker process vulnerable to denial of service through file read operation","details":"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.","aliases":["CVE-2025-22242","GHSA-989c-m532-p2hv"],"modified":"2026-07-07T17:48:08.613709700Z","published":"2026-07-07T16:02:55.170211Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22242"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/e39116fb87bf4db9bcb9aade8258c66df87d41fe"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/saltstack/salt"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://pypi.org/project/salt"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-989c-m532-p2hv"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"salt","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/salt"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"3007.0rc1"},{"fixed":"3007.4"},{"introduced":"3006.0rc1"},{"fixed":"3006.12"}]}],"versions":["3006.0","3006.0rc1","3006.0rc2","3006.0rc3","3006.1","3006.10","3006.11","3006.2","3006.3","3006.4","3006.5","3006.6","3006.7","3006.8","3006.9","3007.0","3007.0rc1","3007.1","3007.2","3007.3"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2026-1896.yaml"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H"}]}