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SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-q53j-p6r2-g2v4)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 433445

Description

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

 - In SaltStack Salt through 2019.2.0, the salt-api NET API with the ssh client enabled is vulnerable to
 command injection. This allows an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the API endpoint to
 execute arbitrary code on the salt-api host. (CVE-2019-17361)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q53j-p6r2-g2v4

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 433445

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

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: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-17361

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: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/17/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-17361

cwe: CWE-77