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SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-8pcp-r83j-fc92)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 427872

Description

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

 - Directory traversal vulnerability in recv_file method allows arbitrary files to be written to the master
 cache directory. (CVE-2024-38824)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8pcp-r83j-fc92

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 427872

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 6/14/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-38824

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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-2024-38824

cwe: CWE-22