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SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-pf7h-h2wq-m7pg)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 417475

Description

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

 - An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3003.3. A user who has control of the source, and
 source_hash URLs can gain full file system access as root on a salt minion. (CVE-2021-21996)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pf7h-h2wq-m7pg

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 417475

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: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-21996

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/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: 11/21/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/8/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-21996

IAVA: 2021-A-0524-S

cwe: CWE-668