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SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-xxvj-8g5m-4qgw)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433127

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 2016.11.7 and 2017.7.x
 before 2017.7.1 allows remote minions with incorrect credentials to authenticate to a master via a crafted
 minion ID. (CVE-2017-12791)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xxvj-8g5m-4qgw

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 433127

Version: Revision 1.3

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: 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-2017-12791

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: 8/15/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-12791

BID: 100384

IAVB: 2017-B-0112-S

cwe: CWE-22