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SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-5r3f-3m3j-wcj2)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434168

Description

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

 - An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt in versions before 3002.8, 3003.4, 3004.1. Job publishes and
 file server replies are susceptible to replay attacks, which can result in an attacker replaying job
 publishes causing minions to run old jobs. File server replies can also be re-played. A sufficient craft
 attacker could gain root access on minion under certain scenarios. (CVE-2022-22936)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5r3f-3m3j-wcj2

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 434168

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

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: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-22936

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/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: 3/30/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/29/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-22936

IAVA: 2022-A-0128-S

cwe: CWE-294