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SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-v89f-4mc4-h6w9)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 431854

Description

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

 - Salt (aka SaltStack) 0.15.0 through 0.17.0 allows remote authenticated users who are using external
 authentication or client ACL to execute restricted routines by embedding the routine in another routine.
 (CVE-2013-4435)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v89f-4mc4-h6w9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 431854

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/7/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-4435

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.7

Threat Score: 5.2

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/12/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4435

BID: 63240

cwe: CWE-287