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SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-v2rp-9cpj-pfw2)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434932

Description

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

 - Salt before 2015.5.10 and 2015.8.x before 2015.8.8, when PAM external authentication is enabled, allows
 attackers to bypass the configured authentication service by passing an alternate service with a command
 sent to LocalClient. (CVE-2016-3176)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v2rp-9cpj-pfw2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434932

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/20/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.8

Percentile: 22.22

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-3176

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

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: 3/23/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-3176

BID: 85387

cwe: CWE-287