SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-vp49-2g4r-m3x3)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 433478

Description

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

- An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 2019.2.4 and 3000 before 3000.2. The salt-master process
ClearFuncs class allows access to some methods that improperly sanitize paths. These methods allow
arbitrary directory access to authenticated users. (CVE-2020-11652)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vp49-2g4r-m3x3

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 433478

Version: Revision 1.5

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: 5.7

Percentile: 97

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-11652

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 6

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Threat Score: 7.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:A

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/30/2020

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 5/3/2022

Exploitable With

Metasploit (SaltStack Salt Master/Minion Unauthenticated RCE)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-11652

IAVA: 2020-A-0195-S

cwe: CWE-20, CWE-22