🛡️ CVE-2025-62348 — salt

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-94 NVD
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Salt junos Module Vulnerable to Code Injection via Specially Crafted YAML Payload

Salt's junos execution module contained an unsafe YAML decode/load usage. A specially crafted YAML payload processed by the junos module could lead to unintended code execution under the context of the Salt process.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-62348 is classified as CWE-94: Code Injection. Input is incorporated into code that the runtime evaluates, so an attacker can have their own code executed.

Affected software

CVE-2025-62348 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • salt (fixed in 3006.17)
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 30 January 2026 and last revised on 7 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
docs.saltproject.io (Web)
github.com (Package)

CVE-2025-62348 on other distributions

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Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-94
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-01-30
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-07
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
salt — 3006.17
unknown — —

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