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

  - Salt before 2015.8.11 allows deleted minions to read or write to minions with the same id, related to
    caching. (CVE-2016-9639)

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Salt before 2015.8.11 allows deleted minions to read or write to minions with the same id, related to     caching. (CVE-2016-9639)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

This update for salt fixes the following issues :

  - [Regression] Permission problem: salt-ssh minion     boostrap doesn't work anymore. (bsc#1027722)

  - wrong use of os_family string for Suse in the locale     module and others (bsc#1038855)

  - Cannot bootstrap a host using 'Manage system completely     via SSH (will not install an agent)' (bsc#1002529)

  - add user to or replace members of group not working with     SLES11 SPx (bsc#978150)

  - SLES-12-GA client fail to start salt minion (SUSE     MANAGER 3.0) (bsc#991048)

  - salt pkg.latest raises exception if package is not     availible (bsc#1012999)

  - pkg.list_products on 'registerrelease' and 'productline'     returns boolean.False if empty (bsc#989193)

  - SLES-12-SP1 salt-minion clients has no Base Channel     added by default (bsc#986019)

  - 'The system requires a reboot' does not disappear from     web-UI despite the reboot (bsc#1017078)

  - Remove option -f from startproc (bsc#975733)

  - [PYTHON2] package salt-minion requires /usr/bin/python     (bsc#1081592)

  - Upgrading packages on RHEL6/7 client fails (bsc#1068566)

  - /var/log/salt has insecure permissions (bsc#1071322)

  - [Minion-bootstrapping] Invalid char cause server     (salt-master ERROR) (bsc#1011304)

  - CVE-2016-9639: Possible information leak due to revoked     keys still being used (bsc#1012398)

  - Bootstrapping SLES12 minion invalid (bsc#1053376)

  - Minions not correctly onboarded if Proxy has multiple     FQDNs (bsc#1063419)

  - salt --summary '*' <function> reporting '# of minions     that did not return' wrongly (bsc#972311)

  - RH-L3 SALT - Stacktrace if nscd package is not present     when using nscd state (bsc#1027044)

  - Inspector broken: no module 'query' or 'inspector' while     querying or inspecting (bsc#989798)

  - [ Regression ]Centos7 Minion remote command execution     from gui or cli , minion not responding (bsc#1027240)

  - SALT, minion_id generation doesn't match the newhostname     (bsc#967803)

  - Salt API server shuts down when SSH call with no matches     is issued (bsc#1004723)

  - /var/log/salt/minion fails logrotate (bsc#1030009)

  - Salt proxy test.ping crashes (bsc#975303)

  - salt master flood log with useless messages (bsc#985661)

  - After bootstrap salt client has deprecation warnings     (bsc#1041993)

  - Head: salt 2017.7.2 starts salt-master as user root     (bsc#1064520)

  - CVE-2017-12791: Maliciously crafted minion IDs can cause     unwanted directory traversals on the Salt-master     (bsc#1053955)

  - salt-2017.7.2 - broken %post script for salt-master     (bsc#1079048)

  - Tearing down deployment with SaltStack Kubernetes module     always shows error (bsc#1059291)

  - lvm.vg_present does not recognize PV with certain LVM     filter settings. (bsc#988506)

  - High state fails: No service execution module loaded:
    check support for service (bsc#1065792)

  - When multiple versions of a package are installed on a     minion, patch status may vary (bsc#972490)

  - Salt cp.push does not work on SUMA 3.2 Builds because of     python3.4 (bsc#1075950)

  - timezone modue does not update /etc/sysconfig/clock     (bsc#1008933)

  - Add patches to salt to support SUSE Manager scalability     features (bsc#1052264)

  - salt-minion failed to start on minimal RHEL6 because of     DBus exception during load of snapper module     (bsc#993039)

  - Permission denied: '/var/run/salt-master.pid'     (bsc#1050003)

  - Jobs scheduled to run at a future time stay pending for     Salt minions (bsc#1036125)

  - Backport kubernetes-modules to salt (bsc#1051948)

  - After highstate: The minion function caused an exception     (bsc#1068446)

  - VUL-0: CVE-2017-14695: salt: directory traversal     vulnerability in minion id validation (bsc#1062462)

  - unable to update salt-minion on RHEL (bsc#1022841)

  - Nodes run out of memory due to salt-minion process     (bsc#983512)

  - [Proxy] 'Broken pipe' during bootstrap of salt minion     (bsc#1039370)

  - incorrect return code from /etc/rc.d/salt-minion     (bsc#999852)

  - CVE-2017-5200: Salt-ssh via api let's run arbitrary     commands as user salt (bsc#1011800)

  - beacons.conf on salt-minion not processed (bsc#1060230)

  - SLES11 SP3 salt-minion Client Cannot Select Base Channel     (bsc#975093)

  - salt-ssh sys.doc gives authentication failure without     arguments (bsc#1019386)

  - minion bootstrapping: error when bootstrap SLE11 clients     (bsc#990439)

  - Certificate Deployment Fails for SLES11 SP3 Clients     (bsc#975757)

  - state.module run() does not translate varargs     (bsc#1025896)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
434481	SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-hvmj-356c-gpf4)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	8/19/2025	7/2/2026	critical
434481	SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-hvmj-356c-gpf4)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	8/19/2025	7/2/2026	critical
261054	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-9639	Nessus	Misc.	9/3/2025	9/3/2025	critical
109293	openSUSE Security Update : salt (openSUSE-2018-388)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	4/24/2018	10/25/2024	critical

Detections

Analytics

Plugins Search

critical

critical

critical

critical