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
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:H |
References (30)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16846
- ADVISORYhttps://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-three-new-cves/
- ADVISORYhttps://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1379/
- ADVISORYhttps://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1380/
- ADVISORYhttps://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1381/
- ADVISORYhttps://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1382/
- ADVISORYhttps://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1383/
- PATCHhttps://github.com/saltstack/salt
- WEBhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00029.html
- WEBhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160039/SaltStack-Salt-REST-API-Arbitrary-Command-Execution.html
- WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2020-104.yaml
- WEBhttps://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/2019.2.6.rst#L10
- WEBhttps://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/3000.4.rst#L10
- WEBhttps://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/3001.2.rst#L10
- WEBhttps://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/3002.1.rst#L12
- WEBhttps://github.com/saltstack/salt/releases
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00007.html
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00000.html
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TPOGB2F6XUAIGFDTOCQDNB2VIXFXHWMA
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/TPOGB2F6XUAIGFDTOCQDNB2VIXFXHWMA
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/TPOGB2F6XUAIGFDTOCQDNB2VIXFXHWMA/
- WEBhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-13
- WEBhttps://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-16846
- WEBhttps://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4837
- WEBhttps://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-three-new-cves
- WEBhttps://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1379
- WEBhttps://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1380
- WEBhttps://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1381
- WEBhttps://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1382
- WEBhttps://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1383