CVE-2020-16846
KEVCRITICAL 9.8EPSS 99.6%
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.
- CVSS v3.1 NVD
- 9.8 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS v3.1 GitHub
- 9.8 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:H - CVSS v2.0 NVD
- 7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P - EPSS
- 99.59% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 100th percentile
- CISA KEV
- added 2021-11-03
- Nuclei
- critical · CWE-78
- Published
- 2020-11-06
- Updated
- 2025-10-21
Proof-of-concept exploits (2)
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160039/SaltStack-Salt-REST-API-Arbitrary-Command-Exe…
- zomy22/CVE-2020-16846-Saltstack-Salt-API0★ · 2021-10-26
Nuclei templates (1)
Metasploit modules (1)
Vulhub environments (1)
Exploit collections (3)
- saltstack-cve-2020-16846.ymlchaitin/xray
- CVE-2020-16846 SaltStack远程执行代码漏洞.mdtzwlhack/Vulnerability
- CVE-2020-16846.yamlzan8in/afrog
Security advisories
- https://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-three-new-…
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00029.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00007.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00000.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-13
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4837
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1379
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1380
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1381
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1382
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1383
- advisories/GHSA-qr38-h96j-2j3w
- saltstack/salt/releases
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/…