CVE-2025-22236

HighCVSS 8.1/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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).

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 8.1/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L

Weakness enumeration

CWE-287

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
VMware	SALT	>= 3006.x, < 3006.12; >= 3007.x, < 3007.4

References

Timeline

Published: Jun 13, 2025
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Deferred

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