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SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-4j59-vv55-q6h3)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 427878

Description

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

 - The salt.auth.pki module does not properly authenticate callers. The "password" field contains a public
 certificate which is validated against a CA certificate by the module. This is not pki authentication, as
 the caller does not need access to the corresponding private key for the authentication attempt to be
 accepted. (CVE-2024-38825)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4j59-vv55-q6h3

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 427878

Version: Revision 1.7

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: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 9.07

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-38825

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

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-2024-38825

cwe: CWE-287