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SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-j6gj-pg62-x8j6)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 432842

Description

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

 - Directory traversal vulnerability in minion id validation in SaltStack Salt before 2016.3.8, 2016.11.x
 before 2016.11.8, and 2017.7.x before 2017.7.2 allows remote minions with incorrect credentials to
 authenticate to a master via a crafted minion ID. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete
 fix for CVE-2017-12791. (CVE-2017-14695)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j6gj-pg62-x8j6

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 432842

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/11/2025

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: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-14695

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/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: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/24/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-14695

cwe: CWE-22