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CVE-2020-16846

9.8 criticalKEVEPSS 100%

Critical (9.8) in SaltStack Salt. In CISA KEV since 2021-11-03. EPSS 100% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in salt 2015.8.10, 2015.8.13, 2016.11.10.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
100% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 99% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CISA KEV
listed 2021-11-03, due 2022-05-03
CWE
CWE-78
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-qr38-h96j-2j3wPyPIsalt<2015.8.132015.8.13
GHSA-qr38-h96j-2j3wPyPIsalt>=2016.3.0 <2016.3.82016.3.8
GHSA-qr38-h96j-2j3wPyPIsalt>=2016.11.0 <2016.11.102016.11.10
GHSA-qr38-h96j-2j3wPyPIsalt>=2017.5.0 <2017.7.82017.7.8
GHSA-qr38-h96j-2j3wPyPIsalt>=2018.2.0 <2018.3.52018.3.5
GHSA-qr38-h96j-2j3wPyPIsalt>=2019.2.0 <2019.2.62019.2.6
GHSA-qr38-h96j-2j3wPyPIsalt>=3000.0 <3000.43000.4
GHSA-qr38-h96j-2j3wPyPIsalt>=3001 <3001.23001.2
GHSA-qr38-h96j-2j3wPyPIsalt>=3002 <3002.13002.1
PYSEC-2020-104PyPIsalt<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		2015.8.10, 2015.8.13, 2016.3.4, 2016.3.6, 2016.3.8, 2016.11.3, 2016.11.6, 2016.11.10, 2017.7.4, 2017.7.8, 2018.3.5, 2019.2.5, 3000.3

References

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