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SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-pjhf-vpx3-33r3)
critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 437175
Description
There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:- An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 2019.2.4 and 3000 before 3000.2. The salt-master process
ClearFuncs class does not properly validate method calls. This allows a remote user to access some methods
without authentication. These methods can be used to retrieve user tokens from the salt master and/or run
arbitrary commands on salt minions. (CVE-2020-11651)
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Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 437175
Version: Revision 1.3
Type: Local
Family: SCA Checks
Published: 1/28/2026
Updated: 7/2/2026
Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: High
Score: 7.9
Percentile: 99.36
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Critical
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 6.2
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-11651
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 9.8
Temporal Score: 9.1
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:F/RL:O/RC:C
CVSS v4
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 9.3
Threat Score: 9.3
Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:A
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Vulnerability Information
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2022
Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/30/2020
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 5/3/2022
Exploitable With
CANVAS (CANVAS)
Metasploit (SaltStack Salt Master/Minion Unauthenticated RCE)
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2020-11651