SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-qr3x-v97p-42xw)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 433033

Description

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

- Unspecified vulnerability in salt-ssh in Salt (aka SaltStack) 0.17.0 has unspecified impact and vectors
related to "insecure Usage of /tmp." (CVE-2013-4437)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qr3x-v97p-42xw

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 433033

Version: Revision 1.5

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: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-4437

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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: 10/16/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4437

BID: 63242