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SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-f2h7-4f84-8qrm)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 434711

Description

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

 - When using the local_batch client from salt-api in SaltStack Salt before 2015.8.13, 2016.3.x before
 2016.3.5, and 2016.11.x before 2016.11.2, external authentication is not respected, enabling all
 authentication to be bypassed. (CVE-2017-5192)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f2h7-4f84-8qrm

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 434711

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 8/19/2025

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-5192

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/26/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5192

cwe: CWE-287