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SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-qvh6-3j7x-3hq7)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 418334

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Git Providers can read from the wrong environment because they get the same cache directory base name in
 Salt masters prior to 3005.2 or 3006.2. Anything that uses Git Providers with different environments can
 get garbage data or the wrong data, which can lead to wrongful data disclosure, wrongful executions, data
 corruption and/or crash. (CVE-2023-20898)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qvh6-3j7x-3hq7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 418334

Version: Revision 1.10

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.66

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-20898

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/5/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/5/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-20898

IAVA: 2023-A-0515-S