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SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-7f3f-x5f5-79gw)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 427876

Description

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

 - File contents overwrite the VirtKey class is called when “on-demand pillar” data is requested and uses un-
 validated input to create paths to the “pki directory”. The functionality is used to auto-accept Minion
 authentication keys based on a pre-placed “authorization file” at a specific location and is present in
 the default configuration. (CVE-2025-22241)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7f3f-x5f5-79gw

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 427876

Version: Revision 1.7

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: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-22241

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/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-2025-22241