CVE-2020-16846

critical-risk
Published 2020-11-06

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.

Do I need to act?

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94.4% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 6% of all CVEs
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CISA KEV: actively exploited in the wild
On the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — federal agencies must patch
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 9.8/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (7)

Affected Vendors

Debian Fedoraproject Opensuse Saltstack

References (29)

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00029.html
Exploit http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160039/SaltStack-Salt-REST-API-Arbitrary-Co...
Release Notes https://github.com/saltstack/salt/releases
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00007.html
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00000.html
Release Notes https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-13
Mailing List https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4837
Broken Link https://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-t...
Third Party Advisory https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1379/
Third Party Advisory https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1380/
Third Party Advisory https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1381/
Third Party Advisory https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1382/
Third Party Advisory https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1383/
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00029.html
Exploit http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160039/SaltStack-Salt-REST-API-Arbitrary-Co...
Release Notes https://github.com/saltstack/salt/releases
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00007.html
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00000.html
Release Notes https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...
and 9 more references
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critical-risk
Severity 32/34 · Critical
Exploitability 27/34 · High
Exposure 14/34 · Moderate