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CVE-2020-16846

SaltStack Salt Command Injection in netapi ssh client

9.8 CriticalIn KEVPublic exploitFix available

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.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

99.6%Up 48.5 points since Apr 14, 2021
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 9.8

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.

Record
CVE-2020-16846
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0
7.5 HighAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness
CWE-78
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List 9.8

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.

Record
CVE-2020-16846
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-78
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2020-0173 9.8

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.

Record
EUVD-2020-0173
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-qr38-h96j-2j3w 9.8

SaltStack Salt Command Injection in netapi ssh client

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.

Record
GHSA-qr38-h96j-2j3w
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:H
Weakness
CWE-78
Updated
2026-11-02
CISA KEV No score

SaltStack Salt Shell Injection Vulnerability

SaltStack Salt allows an unauthenticated user with network access to the Salt API to use shell injections to run code on the Salt API using the SSH client. This vulnerability affects any users running the Salt API.

Record
CVE-2020-16846
Weakness
CWE-78
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVALPINE-CVE-2020-16846 9.8

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.

Record
ALPINE-CVE-2020-16846
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-03
Show 17 moreShow less
OSV 9.8

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.

Record
CVE-2020-16846
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVGHSA-qr38-h96j-2j3w 9.8

SaltStack Salt Command Injection in netapi ssh client

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.

Record
GHSA-qr38-h96j-2j3w
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:H
Weakness
CWE-78
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2020-16846 9.8

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.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2020-16846
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2020:1833-1 No score

Security update for salt

This update for salt fixes the following issues:

  • Properly validate eauth credentials and tokens on SSH calls made by Salt API (bsc#1178319, bsc#1178362, bsc#1178361, CVE-2020-25592, CVE-2020-17490, CVE-2020-16846)
  • Fix disk.blkid to avoid unexpected keyword argument '__pub_user'. (bsc#1177867)
  • Ensure virt.update stop_on_reboot is updated with its default value.
  • Do not break package building for systemd OSes.
  • Drop wrong mock from chroot unit test.
  • Support systemd versions with dot. (bsc#1176294)
  • Fix for grains.test_core unit test.
  • Fix file/directory user and group ownership containing UTF-8 characters. (bsc#1176024)
  • Several changes to virtualization:
    • Fix virt update when cpu and memory are changed.
    • Memory Tuning GSoC.
    • Properly fix memory setting regression in virt.update.
    • Expose libvirt on_reboot in virt states.
  • Support transactional systems (MicroOS).
  • zypperpkg module ignores retcode 104 for search(). (bsc#1159670)
  • Xen disk fixes. No longer generates volumes for Xen disks, but the corresponding file or block disk. (bsc#1175987)
  • Invalidate file list cache when cache file modified time is in the future. (bsc#1176397)
  • Prevent import errors when running test_btrfs unit tests.

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP2:Update update project.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2020:1833-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2020:1868-1 No score

Security update for salt

This update for salt fixes the following issues:

  • Avoid regression on 'salt-master': set passphrase for salt-ssh keys to empty string (bsc#1178485)
  • Properly validate eauth credentials and tokens on SSH calls made by Salt API (bsc#1178319, bsc#1178362, bsc#1178361, CVE-2020-25592, CVE-2020-17490, CVE-2020-16846)
  • Fix disk.blkid to avoid unexpected keyword argument '__pub_user'. (bsc#1177867)
  • Ensure virt.update stop_on_reboot is updated with its default value.
  • Do not break package building for systemd OSes.
  • Drop wrong mock from chroot unit test.
  • Support systemd versions with dot. (bsc#1176294)
  • Fix for grains.test_core unit test.
  • Fix file/directory user and group ownership containing UTF-8 characters. (bsc#1176024)
  • Several changes to virtualization:
    • Fix virt update when cpu and memory are changed.
    • Memory Tuning GSoC.
    • Properly fix memory setting regression in virt.update.
    • Expose libvirt on_reboot in virt states.
  • Support transactional systems (MicroOS).
  • zypperpkg module ignores retcode 104 for search(). (bsc#1159670)
  • Xen disk fixes. No longer generates volumes for Xen disks, but the corresponding file or block disk. (bsc#1175987)
  • Invalidate file list cache when cache file modified time is in the future. (bsc#1176397)
  • Prevent import errors when running test_btrfs unit tests

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP1:Update update project.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2020:1868-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVPYSEC-2020-104 No score

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.

Record
PYSEC-2020-104
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2020:14538-1 No score

Security update for SUSE Manager Client Tools

This update fixes the following issues:

cobbler:

  • Fix parsing cobbler dictionary options with values containing '=', e.g. kernel params containing '=' (bsc#1176978)

mgr-daemon:

  • Update translation strings

salt:

  • Properly validate eauth credentials and tokens on SSH calls made by Salt API (bsc#1178319, bsc#1178362, bsc#1178361, CVE-2020-25592, CVE-2020-17490, CVE-2020-16846)

spacecmd:

  • Python3 fixes for errata in spacecmd (bsc#1169664)
  • Added support for i18n of user-facing strings
  • Python3 fix for sorted usage (bsc#1167907)

spacewalk-client-tools:

  • Remove RH references in Python/Ruby localization and use the product name instead
Record
SUSE-SU-2020:14538-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2020:3155-1 No score

Security update for salt

This update for salt fixes the following issues:

  • Properly validate eauth credentials and tokens on SSH calls made by Salt API (bsc#1178319, bsc#1178362, bsc#1178361, CVE-2020-25592, CVE-2020-17490, CVE-2020-16846)
  • Fix disk.blkid to avoid unexpected keyword argument '__pub_user'. (bsc#1177867)
  • Ensure virt.update stop_on_reboot is updated with its default value.
  • Do not break package building for systemd OSes.
  • Drop wrong mock from chroot unit test.
  • Support systemd versions with dot. (bsc#1176294)
  • Fix for grains.test_core unit test.
  • Fix file/directory user and group ownership containing UTF-8 characters. (bsc#1176024)
  • Several changes to virtualization:
    • Fix virt update when cpu and memory are changed.
    • Memory Tuning GSoC.
    • Properly fix memory setting regression in virt.update.
    • Expose libvirt on_reboot in virt states.
  • Support transactional systems (MicroOS).
  • zypperpkg module ignores retcode 104 for search(). (bsc#1159670)
  • Xen disk fixes. No longer generates volumes for Xen disks, but the corresponding file or block disk. (bsc#1175987)
  • Invalidate file list cache when cache file modified time is in the future. (bsc#1176397)
  • Prevent import errors when running test_btrfs unit tests.
Record
SUSE-SU-2020:3155-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2020:3171-1 No score

Security update for salt

This update for salt fixes the following issues:

  • Fix for CVE-2020-25592 (bsc#1178319), CVE-2020-16846, (bsc#1178361), and CVE-2020-17490 (bsc#1178362).
Record
SUSE-SU-2020:3171-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2020:3235-1 No score

Security update for SUSE Manager Server 4.1

This update fixes the following issues:

bind-formula:

  • Temporarily disable dnssec-validation as hotfix for bsc#1177790

grafana-formula:

  • Use variable for product name
  • Add HA/SAP dashboards
  • Add support for system groups in Client Systems dashboard

image-sync-formula:

  • Do not use .gz suffix for default initrd symlink
  • Keep the old symlink 'initrd.gz' for compatibility

prometheus-exporters-formula:

  • Fix empty directory values initialization
  • Add systemd collector as default for node_exporters since otherwise some SAP/HA grafana dashboards will be empty
  • Disable reverse proxy on default

prometheus-formula:

  • Disable Alertmanager clustering (bsc#1178145)
  • Use variable for product name

pxe-formula:

  • Change default to 'initrd' without .gz suffix

py26-compat-salt:

  • Properly validate eauth credentials and tokens on SSH calls made by Salt API (bsc#1178319, bsc#1178362, bsc#1178361, CVE-2020-25592, CVE-2020-17490, CVE-2020-16846)

python-susemanager-retail:

  • Use name 'initrd' without .gz suffix

salt-netapi-client:

saltboot-formula:

  • Allow setting terminal kernel parameters in saltboot formula

spacecmd:

  • Python3 fixes for errata in spacecmd (bsc#1169664)
  • Added support for i18n of user-facing strings
  • Python3 fix for sorted usage (bsc#1167907)

spacewalk-admin:

  • Show info message when applying schema upgrade

spacewalk-backend:

  • Prevent IntegrityError during mgr-inter-sync execution (bsc#1177235)

spacewalk-branding:

  • Enable to switch to multiple webUI theme

spacewalk-client-tools:

  • Remove RH references in Python/Ruby localization and use the product name instead

spacewalk-java:

  • Use correct eauth module and credentials for Salt SSH calls (bsc#1178319)
  • Remove expiration date from ics files (bsc#1177892)
  • Execute Salt SSH actions in parallel (bsc#1173199)
  • Enable to switch to multiple webUI theme
  • Fix action chain resuming when patches updating salt-minion don't cause service to be restarted (bsc#1144447)
  • Renaming autoinstall distro didn't change the name of the Cobbler distro (bsc#1175876)
  • Fix the links for downloading the binaries in the package details UI (bsc#1176603)
  • Allow nightly ISS sync to also cover custom channels
  • Fix: reinspecting a container image (bsc#1177092)
  • Add power management xmlrpc api
  • Remove hostname from /var/lib/salt/.ssh/known_hosts when deleting system (bsc#1176159)
  • Log exception trace on fatal Taskomatic startup error
  • Fix max password length check at user creation (bsc#1176765)
  • Notify about missing libvirt or hypervisor on virtual host
  • Redesign maintenance schedule systems table to use paginated data from server
  • Fix SP migration after dry run for cloned channels (bsc#1176307)
  • Filter not available optional channels out

spacewalk-search:

  • Change default maximum memory to 512 MB, preventing OutOfMemoryError

spacewalk-web:

  • Enable to switch to multiple webUI theme
  • Only refresh the virtual storage list when pool events are received
  • Drop node-fetch to fix CVE-2020-15168
  • Notify about missing libvirt or hypervisor on virtual host
  • Redesign maintenance schedule systems table to use paginated data from server

susemanager:

  • Create bootstrap repo should not flush by default (bsc#1175843)
  • Improve detection of base channels for products (bsc#1177478)
  • Add LTSS PIDs for SLE12SP1, SLE12SP2, SLE12SP3 and SLE12SP4 to the bootstrap definitions as some packages from LTSS are required (bsc#1177524)
  • Fix logrotate config
  • Add missing packages to ubuntu20.04 bootstrap data (bsc#1176629)

susemanager-build-keys:

  • Replace 'SuSE' user-facing references with 'SUSE'

susemanager-doc-indexes:

  • Documented zypper autorefresh feature in Upgrade Guide
  • Update SP Migration chapter in Client Configuration Guide
  • In Client Configuration and Upgrade Guide, add link to valid autoyast upgrade settings
  • Move client upgrade related sections from…
Record
SUSE-SU-2020:3235-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2020:3243-1 No score

Security update for salt

This update for salt fixes the following issues:

  • Avoid regression on 'salt-master': set passphrase for salt-ssh keys to empty string (bsc#1178485)
  • Properly validate eauth credentials and tokens on SSH calls made by Salt API (bsc#1178319, bsc#1178362, bsc#1178361, CVE-2020-25592, CVE-2020-17490, CVE-2020-16846)
  • Fix disk.blkid to avoid unexpected keyword argument '__pub_user'. (bsc#1177867)
  • Ensure virt.update stop_on_reboot is updated with its default value.
  • Do not break package building for systemd OSes.
  • Drop wrong mock from chroot unit test.
  • Support systemd versions with dot. (bsc#1176294)
  • Fix for grains.test_core unit test.
  • Fix file/directory user and group ownership containing UTF-8 characters. (bsc#1176024)
  • Several changes to virtualization:
    • Fix virt update when cpu and memory are changed.
    • Memory Tuning GSoC.
    • Properly fix memory setting regression in virt.update.
    • Expose libvirt on_reboot in virt states.
  • Support transactional systems (MicroOS).
  • zypperpkg module ignores retcode 104 for search(). (bsc#1159670)
  • Xen disk fixes. No longer generates volumes for Xen disks, but the corresponding file or block disk. (bsc#1175987)
  • Invalidate file list cache when cache file modified time is in the future. (bsc#1176397)
  • Prevent import errors when running test_btrfs unit tests
Record
SUSE-SU-2020:3243-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2020:3244-1 No score

Security update for Salt

This update fixes the following issues:

salt:

  • Avoid regression on 'salt-master': set passphrase for salt-ssh keys to empty string (bsc#1178485)
  • Properly validate eauth credentials and tokens on SSH calls made by Salt API (bsc#1178319, bsc#1178362, bsc#1178361, CVE-2020-25592, CVE-2020-17490, CVE-2020-16846)
  • Fix disk.blkid to avoid unexpected keyword argument '__pub_user' (bsc#1177867)
  • Ensure virt.update stop_on_reboot is updated with its default value
  • Do not break package building for systemd OSes
  • Drop wrong mock from chroot unit test
  • Support systemd versions with dot (bsc#1176294)
  • Fix for grains.test_core unit test
  • Fix file/directory user and group ownership containing UTF-8 characters (bsc#1176024)
  • Several changes to virtualization:
    • Fix virt update when cpu and memory are changed
    • Memory Tuning GSoC
    • Properly fix memory setting regression in virt.update
    • Expose libvirt on_reboot in virt states
  • Support transactional systems (MicroOS)
  • Zypperpkg module ignores retcode 104 for search() (bsc#1159670)
  • Xen disk fixes. No longer generates volumes for Xen disks, but the corresponding file or block disk (bsc#1175987)
  • Invalidate file list cache when cache file modified time is in the future (bsc#1176397)
  • Prevent import errors when running test_btrfs unit tests
Record
SUSE-SU-2020:3244-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2020:3245-1 No score

Security update for Salt

This update fixes the following issues:

salt:

  • Fix disk.blkid to avoid unexpected keyword argument '__pub_user' (bsc#1177867)
  • Ensure virt.update stop_on_reboot is updated with its default value
  • Do not break package building for systemd OSes
  • Drop wrong mock from chroot unit test
  • Support systemd versions with dot (bsc#1176294)
  • Fix for grains.test_core unit test
  • Fix file/directory user and group ownership containing UTF-8 characters (bsc#1176024)
  • Several changes to virtualization:
    • Fix virt update when cpu and memory are changed
    • Memory Tuning GSoC
    • Properly fix memory setting regression in virt.update
    • Expose libvirt on_reboot in virt states
  • Support transactional systems (MicroOS)
  • Zypperpkg module ignores retcode 104 for search() (bsc#1159670)
  • Xen disk fixes. No longer generates volumes for Xen disks, but the corresponding file or block disk (bsc#1175987)
  • Invalidate file list cache when cache file modified time is in the future (bsc#1176397)
  • Prevent import errors when running test_btrfs unit tests
  • Properly validate eauth credentials and tokens on SSH calls made by Salt API (bsc#1178319, bsc#1178362, bsc#1178361, CVE-2020-25592, CVE-2020-17490, CVE-2020-16846)
  • Avoid regression on 'salt-master': set passphrase for salt-ssh keys to empty string (bsc#1178485)
Record
SUSE-SU-2020:3245-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2020:3250-1 No score

Security update for SUSE Manager 4.0

This security update for SUSE Manager 4.0 provides the following fixes:

py26-compat-salt:

  • Properly validate eauth credentials and tokens on SSH calls made by Salt API (bsc#1178319, bsc#1178362, bsc#1178361, CVE-2020-25592, CVE-2020-17490, CVE-2020-16846)

spacewalk-java:

  • Use correct eauth module and credentials for Salt SSH calls. (bsc#1178319, CVE-2020-25592)
Record
SUSE-SU-2020:3250-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2020:3251-1 No score

Security update for SUSE Manager 3.2

This security update for SUSE Manager 3.2 fixes the following issues:

py26-compat-salt:

  • Properly validate eauth credentials and tokens on SSH calls made by Salt API (bsc#1178319, bsc#1178362, bsc#1178361, CVE-2020-25592, CVE-2020-17490, CVE-2020-16846)

spacewalk-java:

  • Use correct eauth module and credentials for Salt SSH calls (bsc#1178319, CVE-2020-25592)
Record
SUSE-SU-2020:3251-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-6948-1 No score

salt vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Salt incorrectly handled crafted web requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to run arbitrary commands. (CVE-2020-16846)

It was discovered that Salt incorrectly created certificates with weak file permissions. (CVE-2020-17490)

It was discovered that Salt incorrectly handled credential validation. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass authentication. (CVE-2020-25592)

It was discovered that Salt incorrectly handled crafted process names. An attacker could possibly use this issue to run arbitrary commands. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-28243)

It was discovered that Salt incorrectly handled validation of SSL/TLS certificates. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to spoof a trusted entity. (CVE-2020-28972, CVE-2020-35662)

It was discovered that Salt incorrectly handled credential validation. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to run arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-25281)

It was discovered that Salt incorrectly handled crafted paths. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform directory traversal. (CVE-2021-25282)

It was discovered that Salt incorrectly handled template rendering. A remote attacker could possibly this issue to run arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-25283)

It was discovered that Salt incorrectly handled logging. An attacker could possibly use this issue to discover credentials. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-25284)

It was discovered that Salt incorrectly handled crafted web requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to run arbitrary commands. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-3148)

It was discovered that Salt incorrectly handled input sanitization. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to run arbitrary commands. (CVE-2021-3197)

Record
USN-6948-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-7181-1 No score

salt vulnerability

It was discovered that Salt incorrectly handled web requests when the SSH client was enabled. An attacker could possibly use this issue to achieve remote code execution or obtain sensitive information.

Record
USN-7181-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
salt
PyPI
before 2015.8.13
2015.8.13
salt
PyPI
2016.3.0 up to 2016.3.8
2016.3.8
salt
PyPI
2016.11.0 up to 2016.11.10
2016.11.10
salt
PyPI
2017.5.0 up to 2017.7.8
2017.7.8
salt
PyPI
2018.2.0 up to 2018.3.5
2018.3.5
salt
PyPI
2019.2.0 up to 2019.2.6
2019.2.6
salt
PyPI
3000.0 up to 3000.4
3000.4
salt
PyPI
3001 up to 3001.2
3001.2
salt
PyPI
3002 up to 3002.1
3002.1
salt
Alpine:v3.13
2015.8.11 up to 3002-r1
3002-r1
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
salt
Alpine:v3.14
2015.8.11 up to 3002-r1
3002-r1
salt
Alpine:v3.15
2015.8.11 up to 3002-r1
3002-r1
salt
Alpine:v3.16
2015.8.11 up to 3002-r1
3002-r1
salt
Alpine:v3.17
2015.8.11 up to 3002-r1
3002-r1
salt
Alpine:v3.18
2015.8.11 up to 3002-r1
3002-r1
salt
Alpine:v3.19
2015.8.11 up to 3002-r1
3002-r1
salt
Alpine:v3.20
2015.8.11 up to 3002-r1
3002-r1
salt
Alpine:v3.21
2015.8.11 up to 3002-r1
3002-r1
salt
Alpine:v3.22
2015.8.11 up to 3002-r1
3002-r1
salt
Alpine:v3.23
2015.8.11 up to 3002-r1
3002-r1
salt
Alpine:v3.24
2015.8.11 up to 3002-r1
3002-r1
salt
Debian:9
before 2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u6, plus listed versions
2016.11.2+ds-12016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u12016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u22016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u32016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u42016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u5
2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u6
salt
Debian:10
before 2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u2, plus listed versions
2018.3.4+dfsg1-62018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u1
2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u2
salt
PyPI
before 2015.8.13, plus listed versions
0.10.00.10.10.10.20.10.30.10.4
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0.10.50.11.00.11.10.12.00.12.10.13.00.13.10.13.20.13.30.14.00.14.10.15.00.15.10.15.20.15.30.15.900.16.00.16.10.16.20.16.30.16.40.17.00.17.0rc10.17.10.17.20.17.30.17.40.17.50.8.70.8.90.9.00.9.10.9.20.9.30.9.40.9.50.9.60.9.70.9.80.9.90.9.9.12014.1.02014.1.0rc12014.1.0rc22014.1.0rc3
2015.8.13
salt
PyPI
2016.3.0 up to 2016.3.8, plus listed versions
2016.3.12016.3.22016.3.32016.3.42016.3.52016.3.62016.3.7
2016.3.8
salt
PyPI
2016.11.0 up to 2016.11.10, plus listed versions
2016.11.12016.11.22016.11.32016.11.42016.11.5
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2016.11.62016.11.72016.11.82016.11.9
2016.11.10
salt
PyPI
2017.5.0 up to 2017.7.8, plus listed versions
2017.7.02017.7.0rc12017.7.12017.7.22017.7.3
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2017.7.8
salt
PyPI
2018.2.0 up to 2018.3.5, plus listed versions
2018.3.02018.3.0rc12018.3.12018.3.22018.3.32018.3.4
2018.3.5
salt
PyPI
2019.2.0 up to 2019.2.6, plus listed versions
2019.2.12019.2.22019.2.32019.2.42019.2.5
2019.2.6
salt
PyPI
3000.0 up to 3000.4, plus listed versions
30003000.13000.23000.3
3000.4
salt
PyPI
3001 up to 3001.2, plus listed versions
3001.1
3001.2
salt
PyPI
before 2015.8.10, 2015.8.11 up to 2015.8.13, 2016.3.0 up to 2016.3.4, 2016.3.5 up to 2016.3.6, 2016.3.7 up to 2016.3.8, 2016.11.0 up to 2016.11.3, 2016.11.4 up to 2016.11.6, 2016.11.7 up to 2016.11.10, 2017.7.0 up to 2017.7.4, 2017.7.5 up to 2017.7.8, 2018.3.0rc1 up to 2018.3.5, 2019.2.0 up to 2019.2.5, 3000 up to 3000.3, plus listed versions
0.10.00.10.10.10.20.10.30.10.4
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0.10.50.11.00.11.10.12.00.12.10.13.00.13.10.13.20.13.30.14.00.14.10.15.00.15.10.15.20.15.30.15.900.16.00.16.10.16.20.16.30.16.40.17.00.17.0rc10.17.10.17.20.17.30.17.40.17.50.8.70.8.90.9.00.9.10.9.20.9.30.9.40.9.50.9.60.9.70.9.80.9.90.9.9.12014.1.02014.1.0rc12014.1.0rc22014.1.0rc3
2015.8.102015.8.132016.3.42016.3.62016.3.82016.11.32016.11.62016.11.102017.7.42017.7.82018.3.52019.2.53000.3
cobbler
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-CLIENT-TOOLS
before 2.2.2-0.68.12.1
2.2.2-0.68.12.1
mgr-daemon
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-CLIENT-TOOLS
before 4.1.3-5.20.1
4.1.3-5.20.1
salt
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-CLIENT-TOOLS
before 2016.11.10-43.63.1
2016.11.10-43.63.1
spacecmd
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-CLIENT-TOOLS
before 4.1.8-18.72.1
4.1.8-18.72.1
spacewalk-client-tools
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-CLIENT-TOOLS
before 4.1.7-27.38.1
4.1.7-27.38.1
cobbler
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-CLIENT-TOOLS
before 2.2.2-0.68.12.1
2.2.2-0.68.12.1
mgr-daemon
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-CLIENT-TOOLS
before 4.1.3-5.20.1
4.1.3-5.20.1
salt
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before 2016.11.10-43.63.1
2016.11.10-43.63.1
spacecmd
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-CLIENT-TOOLS
before 4.1.8-18.72.1
4.1.8-18.72.1
spacewalk-client-tools
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before 4.1.7-27.38.1
4.1.7-27.38.1
salt
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP2
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3000-4.20.1
salt
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Python 2 15 SP2
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3000-4.20.1
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spacecmd
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spacewalk-backend
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spacewalk-client-tools
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4.1.7-4.6.4
spacewalk-web
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4.1.19-3.9.5
susemanager-build-keys
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15.2.2-3.6.3
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0.3.0-3.3.2
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SUSE:Manager Server Module 4.1
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0.1.1602150122.f08af0a-3.6.2
spacecmd
SUSE:Manager Server Module 4.1
before 4.1.8-4.9.2
4.1.8-4.9.2
spacewalk-admin
SUSE:Manager Server Module 4.1
before 4.1.7-3.6.3
4.1.7-3.6.3
spacewalk-backend
SUSE:Manager Server Module 4.1
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spacewalk-branding
SUSE:Manager Server Module 4.1
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spacewalk-client-tools
SUSE:Manager Server Module 4.1
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spacewalk-java
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before 4.1.22-3.16.4
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spacewalk-search
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spacewalk-web
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Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS
before 0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm4, plus listed versions
0.16.0-10.16.4-20.17.1+dfsg-10.17.2-10.17.2-2
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0.17.2-30.17.4-10.17.4-20.17.5-10.17.5+ds-10.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm10.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
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salt
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS
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2015.5.3+ds-12015.8.1+ds-22015.8.3+ds-12015.8.3+ds-22015.8.3+ds-3
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2016.11.5+ds-12016.11.8+dfsg1-12017.7.2+dfsg1-2ubuntu12017.7.3+dfsg1-12017.7.4+dfsg1-12017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.12017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.2
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Public exploits

Links only. Every CVE stores no exploit code.

Public exploits
SourceLinkDate
MetasploitSaltStack Salt REST API Arbitrary Command Execution2020-11-03
PoC in GitHubzomy22/CVE-2020-16846-Saltstack-Salt-API2021-10-14
PoC in GitHubhamza-boudouche/projet-secu2022-12-12
NucleiSaltStack <=3002 - Shell Injection

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
exploitation
affected, aliases, exploits, referencesOSV
first indexedCVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, CISA KEV, Metasploit, Nuclei, NVD, OSV, PoC in GitHub

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2020-16846 is a critical vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) in Saltstack Salt, published November 4, 2020. CISA lists it as known to be exploited, since November 3, 2021. EUVD reports exploitation since November 3, 2021. Public exploit code exists. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 99.6%, the 99th percentile. Fixed in salt 2015.8.13.

References

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