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SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-mfr3-9cj8-h2qm)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 432582

Description

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

 - Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Salt (aka SaltStack) before 2014.1.10 allow local users to have an
 unspecified impact via vectors related to temporary file creation in (1) seed.py, (2) salt-ssh, or (3)
 salt-cloud. (CVE-2014-3563)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mfr3-9cj8-h2qm

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 432582

Version: Revision 1.3

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-3563

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.4

Temporal Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/21/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3563

BID: 69319

cwe: CWE-59