SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-jx34-pppm-gjvr)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 432452

Description

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

- Directory Traversal vulnerability in salt-api in SaltStack Salt before 2017.7.8 and 2018.3.x before
2018.3.3 allows remote attackers to determine which files exist on the server. (CVE-2018-15750)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jx34-pppm-gjvr

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 432452

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/8/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-15750

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/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: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/24/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-15750

cwe: CWE-22