HIGH 8.1

PYSEC-2026-1899

Salt has minion event bus authorization bypass vulnerability

Details

Minion event bus authorization bypass. An attacker with access to a minion key can craft a message which may be able to execute a job on other minions (>= 3007.0).

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Affected packages

PyPI / salt

Introduced in: 3006.0 Fixed in: 3006.12

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

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22236 [ADVISORY]
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-jh7c-xh74-h76f [ADVISORY]