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SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-hcjf-rp5h-g5h3)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 415643

Description

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

 - In SaltStack Salt 2016.9 through 3002.6, a command injection vulnerability exists in the snapper module
 that allows for local privilege escalation on a minion. The attack requires that a file is created with a
 pathname that is backed up by snapper, and that the master calls the snapper.diff function (which executes
 popen unsafely). (CVE-2021-31607)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hcjf-rp5h-g5h3

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 415643

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

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: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-31607

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/23/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-31607

IAVA: 2021-A-0524-S

cwe: CWE-77, CWE-78