Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-22241

Medium

Published: 13 June 2025

Published
13 June 2025
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0014 34.0th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-22241 is a medium-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Saltproject (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 5.6 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 34.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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”…

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at a specific location and is present in the default configuration.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

Saltproject
inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

References