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SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-x549-r7m8-gv63)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 434134

Description

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

 - SaltStack Salt before 2017.7.8 and 2018.3.x before 2018.3.3 allow remote attackers to bypass
 authentication and execute arbitrary commands via salt-api(netapi). (CVE-2018-15751)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x549-r7m8-gv63

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 434134

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: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-15751

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: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/24/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-15751

cwe: CWE-287