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FKIE_CVE-2020-16846

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-11-06 08:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:58
Severity
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00029.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160039/SaltStack-Salt-REST-API-Arbitrary-Command-Execution.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/saltstack/salt/releasesRelease Notes
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00007.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00000.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TPOGB2F6XUAIGFDTOCQDNB2VIXFXHWMA/Release Notes
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-13Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4837Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-three-new-cves/Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1379/Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1380/Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1381/Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1382/Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1383/Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00029.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160039/SaltStack-Salt-REST-API-Arbitrary-Command-Execution.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/saltstack/salt/releasesRelease Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00007.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00000.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TPOGB2F6XUAIGFDTOCQDNB2VIXFXHWMA/Release Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-13Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4837Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-three-new-cves/Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1379/Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1380/Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1381/Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1382/Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1383/Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-16846US Government Resource
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
saltstack salt *
saltstack salt *
saltstack salt *
saltstack salt *
saltstack salt *
saltstack salt *
saltstack salt *
saltstack salt *
saltstack salt *
saltstack salt *
saltstack salt *
saltstack salt *
saltstack salt *
saltstack salt 3001
saltstack salt 3002
debian debian_linux 9.0
debian debian_linux 10.0
fedoraproject fedora 31
opensuse leap 15.1
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.