MEDIUM 5.6

PYSEC-2026-1895

Salt's file contents overwrite the VirtKey class

Details

File contents overwrite the VirtKey class is called when “on-demand pillar” data is requested and uses un-validated input to create paths to the “pki directory”. The functionality is used to auto-accept Minion authentication keys based on a pre-placed “authorization file” at a specific location and is present in the default configuration.

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Affected packages

PyPI / salt

Introduced in: 3007.0rc1 Fixed in: 3007.4

Fix pip install --upgrade 'salt>=3006.12'

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22241 [ADVISORY]
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/9445f496fed61b15dc4364818007e5b765b0746f [WEB]
https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.12.html [WEB]
https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3007/topics/releases/3007.4.html [WEB]
https://github.com/saltstack/salt [PACKAGE]
https://pypi.org/project/salt [PACKAGE]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7f3f-x5f5-79gw [ADVISORY]