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SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-r546-h3ff-q585)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 427871

Description

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

 - Directory traversal attack in minion file cache creation. The master's default cache is vulnerable to a
 directory traversal attack. Which could be leveraged to write or overwrite 'cache' files outside of the
 cache directory. (CVE-2025-22238)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r546-h3ff-q585

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 427871

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 6/14/2025

Updated: 6/1/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.92

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:C/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-22238

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.2

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/13/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/13/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-22238

IAVA: 2025-A-0434-S

cwe: CWE-22