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SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-q2x6-8gfj-hjxw)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433102

Description

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

 - salt before 2015.5.5 leaks git usernames and passwords to the log. (CVE-2015-6918)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q2x6-8gfj-hjxw

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433102

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/12/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

Percentile: 50.87

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-6918

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/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: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/19/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-6918

BID: 101239

cwe: CWE-200