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SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-qx72-q6w3-qgc7)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434374

Description

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

 - In SaltStack Salt before 3002.5, when authenticating to services using certain modules, the SSL
 certificate is not always validated. (CVE-2020-35662)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qx72-q6w3-qgc7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 434374

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 1/28/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-35662

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/27/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-35662

IAVA: 2021-A-0112-S

cwe: CWE-295