MEDIUM5.6
PYSEC-2026-1896
Salt's worker process vulnerable to denial of service through file read operation
Quick fix
PYSEC-2026-1896 — salt: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
pip install --upgrade 'salt>=3006.12'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.
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References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22242[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/e39116fb87bf4db9bcb9aade8258c66df87d41fe[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-989c-m532-p2hv[ADVISORY]