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SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-2q4g-wfm6-5fpm)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 431978

Description

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

 - An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt in versions before 3002.8, 3003.4, 3004.1. Salt Masters do not
 sign pillar data with the minion’s public key, which can result in attackers substituting arbitrary pillar
 data. (CVE-2022-22934)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2q4g-wfm6-5fpm

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 431978

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/7/2025

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: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-22934

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/30/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/29/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-22934

IAVA: 2022-A-0128-S

cwe: CWE-347