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SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-f22j-37jj-cxw9)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 432791

Description

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

 - The default configuration for salt-ssh in Salt (aka SaltStack) 0.17.0 does not validate the SSH host key
 of requests, which allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a man-in-the-middle (MITM)
 attack. (CVE-2013-4436)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f22j-37jj-cxw9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 432791

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/11/2025

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: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-4436

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/16/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4436

BID: 63239

cwe: CWE-20