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Vulnerability record

CVE-2020-16846

SaltStack Salt Shell Injection Vulnerability

CriticalExploitation confirmedCISA KEV
What should I do?

This vulnerability is in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: attackers are using it. If you run Salt, fix it now.

CISA required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

US federal civilian agencies must remediate by May 3, 2022.

Patch status

No official fix confirmed yet

Until a fix ships, follow the vendor's mitigations and CISA's required action, limit exposure of affected systems, and watch this record for a patch.

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.

Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database. Official vulnerability data, reproduced as published.

Affected products

ProductVendorAffected versionsFixed inSource
SaltSaltStack< 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, < 2016.11.32015.8.10; 2015.8.13; 2016.3.4; 2016.3.6; 2016.3.8; 2016.11.3KEV

Sources: KEV = CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Intelligence timeline

Developments from the last 30 days, newest first.

  1. CVSS scoredUpdateKEV

    CVE-2020-16846 scored CVSS 9.8: SaltStack Salt, SaltStack Salt Shell Injection Vulnerability

    CISA lists this as exploited in the wild. Unpatched Salt systems are exposed to active attacks now.

    Basis: NIST National Vulnerability Database

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