MEDIUM6.7

PYSEC-2026-1898

Salt's on demand pillar functionality vulnerable to arbitrary command injections

Quick fix

PYSEC-2026-1898 — salt: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'salt>=3006.12'

Details

An attacker with access to a minion key can exploit the 'on demand' pillar functionality with a specially crafted git url which could cause and arbitrary command to be run on the master with the same privileges as the master process.

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Affected packages

PyPI/salt

Introduced in: 3006.0rc1Fixed in: 3006.12

Fixpip install --upgrade 'salt>=3006.12'

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22237[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-fcr4-h6c4-rvvp[ADVISORY]