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SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-3c56-vx6v-q5vh)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 434369

Description

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

 - The TLS module within SaltStack Salt through 3002 creates certificates with weak file permissions.
 (CVE-2020-17490)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3c56-vx6v-q5vh

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434369

Version: Revision 1.2

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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-17490

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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: 5/7/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-17490

IAVA: 2020-A-0195-S

cwe: CWE-732