CVE-2025-22241 (GCVE-0-2025-22241)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-06-13 07:04
Modified
2025-06-17 17:26
Severity ?
5.6 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Summary
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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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
VMware SALT Version: 3006.x
Version: 3007.x
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