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CVE-2020-16846: SaltStack Salt Shell Injection Vulnerability

criticalknown exploitedpublic exploitCVE-2020-16846
Actively exploited. At least one CVE in this advisory is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — exploitation has been observed in the wild. Treat remediation as urgent.
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.

CSIRTS triage

vendor: SaltStackproduct: SaltRemote code execution
What
SaltStack Salt allows an unauthenticated user to use shell injections to run code on the Salt API.
Who is affected
Any users running the Salt API with network access.
Urgency
Immediate remediation is necessary as the vulnerability is actively exploited and rated critical.
Action
Upgrade to the patched version of SaltStack Salt.

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Details

Source
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (US · database · site)
Severity
critical
Published
2021-11-03
Exploitation
Observed in the wild (CISA KEV)

Original advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16846

Exploitation outlook

EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.

Referenced CVEs

CVECSIRTS overviewExternal
CVE-2020-16846coverage & exploitation statusNVD · CVE.org

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