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SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-w2hr-3mc8-46gh)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 434470

Description

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

 - In SaltStack Salt before 3002.5, eauth tokens can be used once after expiration. (They might be used to
 run command against the salt master or minions.) (CVE-2021-3144)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w2hr-3mc8-46gh

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 434470

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: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

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-2021-3144

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: 2/27/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3144

IAVA: 2021-A-0112-S

cwe: CWE-613