CVE-2020-16846

CRITICAL9.8⚠ KEVEPSS 94.4%

salt - security update

Published: 5/24/2022Modified: 3/9/2026Added to CISA KEV: 11/3/2021

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.

Affected packages (4)

  • Debian/saltfrom 0, < 2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u6
  • Debian/saltfrom 0, < 2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u2
  • PyPI/saltfrom 0, < 2015.8.13
  • PyPI/saltfrom 0, < 2015.8.10, >= 2015.8.11, < 2015.8.13, >= 2016.3.0, < 2016.3.4, >= 2016.3.5, < 2016.3.6, >= 2016.3.7, < 2016.3.8, >= 2016.11.0, < 2016.11.3, >= 2016.11.4, < 2016.11.6, >= 2016.11.7, < 2016.11.10, >= 2017.7.0, < 2017.7.4, >= 2017.7.5, < 2017.7.8, >= 2018.3.0rc1, < 2018.3.5, >= 2019.2.0, < 2019.2.5, >= 3000, < 3000.3

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1CRITICAL9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:H

References (30)