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CVE-2022-22967

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-22967 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting SaltStack Salt versions prior to 3002.9, 3003.5, and 3004.2. The flaw in the PAM authentication mechanism allows previously authorized but locked user accounts to continue executing Salt commands, impacting both local shell sessions and salt-api users. With a CVSS score of 8.8, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low privileges, potentially leading to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3002.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 3003, < 3003.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 3004, < 3004.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.88%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0188 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 17,844 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: saltFixed in: 3002.9
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: saltFixed in: 3003.5
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: saltFixed in: 3004.2

Vendor Advisories (1)

pipGHSA-fpxm-fprw-6hxjhigh

Salt's PAM auth fails to reject locked accounts

Jun 25, 2022

References

repo.saltproject.io
ProductVendor Advisory
saltproject.io / security_announcements/salt-security-advisory-release-june-21st-2022/%2C
Broken Link
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202310-22
Third Party Advisory