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SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-xxw3-765m-f37p)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434440

Description

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

 - An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. salt-api does not honor eauth credentials
 for the wheel_async client. Thus, an attacker can remotely run any wheel modules on the master.
 (CVE-2021-25281)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xxw3-765m-f37p

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 434440

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: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-25281

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/27/2021

Exploitable With

Metasploit (SaltStack Salt API Unauthenticated RCE through wheel_async client)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-25281

IAVA: 2021-A-0112-S

cwe: CWE-287