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SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-8rp6-x3r7-5qw3)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 436995

Description

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

 - An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The salt-api's ssh client is vulnerable to a
 shell injection by including ProxyCommand in an argument, or via ssh_options provided in an API request.
 (CVE-2021-3197)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8rp6-x3r7-5qw3

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 436995

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/27/2026

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-2021-3197

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: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/27/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3197

IAVA: 2021-A-0112-S

cwe: CWE-74