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SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-6grp-75pq-c8cj)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 432960

Description

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

 - modules/chef.py in SaltStack before 2014.7.4 does not properly handle files in /tmp. (CVE-2015-1839)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6grp-75pq-c8cj

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 432960

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: Low

Score: 2.8

Percentile: 22.22

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-1839

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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: 1/4/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1839