CVE-2025-62349

Publication date 30 January 2026

Last updated 1 April 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Salt contains an authentication protocol version downgrade weakness that can allow a malicious minion to bypass newer authentication/security features by using an older request payload format, enabling minion impersonation and circumventing protections introduced in response to prior issues.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
salt	25.10 questing	Not in release
	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
salt	Upstream: 1c76dfb

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.2 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	High
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	Low

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.2 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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