SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-xh32-3m67-qjgf)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 427877

Description

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

- Arbitrary directory creation or file deletion. In the find_file method of the GitFS class, a path is
created using os.path.join using unvalidated input from the “tgt_env” variable. This can be exploited by
an attacker to delete any file on the Master's process has permissions to. (CVE-2025-22240)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xh32-3m67-qjgf

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 427877

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 6/14/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.49

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-22240

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/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: 6/13/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/13/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-22240

IAVA: 2025-A-0434-S

cwe: CWE-22