CVE-2020-16846

CRITICALCISA KEV

9.8

Description

An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt through 3002. Sending crafted web requests to the Salt API, with the SSH client enabled, can result in shell injection.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score9.8

SeverityCRITICAL

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published11/6/2020

Last Modified11/7/2025

Sourcekev

Honeypot Sightings0

CISA KEV

VendorSaltStack

ProductSalt

Vulnerability NameSaltStack Salt Shell Injection Vulnerability

KEV Date Added2021-11-03

Remediation Due Date2022-05-03

Ransomware UseUnknown

Affected Products

debian:debian_linuxfedoraproject:fedoraopensuse:leapsaltstack:salt

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-78CWE-78

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00029.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160039/SaltStack-Salt-REST-API-Arbitrary-Command-Execution.html(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/releases(cve@mitre.org)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00007.html(cve@mitre.org)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00000.html(cve@mitre.org)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TPOGB2F6XUAIGFDTOCQDNB2VIXFXHWMA/(cve@mitre.org)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-13(cve@mitre.org)

https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4837(cve@mitre.org)

https://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-three-new-cves/(cve@mitre.org)

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1379/(cve@mitre.org)

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1380/(cve@mitre.org)

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1381/(cve@mitre.org)

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1382/(cve@mitre.org)

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1383/(cve@mitre.org)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00029.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160039/SaltStack-Salt-REST-API-Arbitrary-Command-Execution.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/releases(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00007.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00000.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TPOGB2F6XUAIGFDTOCQDNB2VIXFXHWMA/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-13(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4837(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-three-new-cves/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1379/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1380/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1381/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1382/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1383/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-16846(134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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