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SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-h8xp-h3jf-wv4v)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 434825

Description

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

 - SaltStack Salt 2018.3, 2019.2 is affected by: SQL Injection. The impact is: An attacker could escalate
 privileges on MySQL server deployed by cloud provider. It leads to RCE. The component is: The
 mysql.user_chpass function from the MySQL module for Salt. The attack vector is: specially crafted
 password string. The fixed version is: 2018.3.4. (CVE-2019-1010259)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h8xp-h3jf-wv4v

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 434825

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/20/2025

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: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-1010259

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/18/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-1010259

cwe: CWE-89