SARA / Free Tools / KEV / CVE-2020-16846

CVE-2020-16846 on CISA KEV

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.

CISA KEV — Actively Exploited

SaltStack Salt Shell Injection Vulnerability

Vendor / Product
— / SaltStack / Salt
Added to KEV
2021-11-03
BOD 22-01 due
2022-05-03
Ransomware use
Unknown
CVSS / EPSS
· EPSS 94.39%

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

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.

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

03Notes & references

04SARA's analyst layer — why this matters

This vulnerability is currently on the CISA KEV list, which CISA only adds CVEs to when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. For federal civilian agencies, BOD 22-01 requires remediation by the due date above. For everyone else, KEV is the strongest "patch immediately" signal you can get from public threat intel.

05Affected products (summary)

VendorProductVersions
na / n/an/a

06Detection

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