MEDIUM6.3
PYSEC-2026-1903
Salt allows arbitrary directory creation or file deletion
Quick fix
PYSEC-2026-1903 — salt: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
pip install --upgrade 'salt>=3006.12'Details
Arbitrary directory creation or file deletion. In the find_file method of the GitFS class, a path is created using os.path.join using unvalidated input from the “tgt_env” variable. This can be exploited by an attacker to delete any file on the Master's process has permissions to.
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References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22240[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/f7c28ffbf18dbf693a15b1ba9493918de3e88cf3[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-xh32-3m67-qjgf[ADVISORY]