CVE-2020-16846
critical · 9.8Actively exploitedOn the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
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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.
9.8
CVSS
99.6%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
100th
EPSS percentile
2020-11-06
Published
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-78
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| saltstack | salt | < 2015.8.10 |
| saltstack | salt | >= 2015.8.11, < 2015.8.13 |
| saltstack | salt | >= 2016.3.0, < 2016.3.4 |
| saltstack | salt | >= 2016.3.5, < 2016.3.6 |
| saltstack | salt | >= 2016.3.7, < 2016.3.8 |
| saltstack | salt | >= 2016.11.0, < 2016.11.3 |
| saltstack | salt | >= 2016.11.4, < 2016.11.6 |
| saltstack | salt | >= 2016.11.7, < 2016.11.10 |
| saltstack | salt | >= 2017.5.0, < 2017.7.4 |
| saltstack | salt | >= 2017.7.5, < 2017.7.8 |
| saltstack | salt | >= 2018.2.0, < 2018.3.5 |
| saltstack | salt | >= 2019.2.0, < 2019.2.5 |
| saltstack | salt | >= 3000.0, < 3000.3 |
| 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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References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00029.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160039/SaltStack-Salt-REST-API-Arbitrary-Command-Execution.html
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/releases
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00007.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00000.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TPOGB2F6XUAIGFDTOCQDNB2VIXFXHWMA/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-13
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4837
- https://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-three-new-cves/
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1379/
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1380/
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1381/
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1382/
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1383/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00029.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160039/SaltStack-Salt-REST-API-Arbitrary-Command-Execution.html
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/releases
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00007.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00000.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TPOGB2F6XUAIGFDTOCQDNB2VIXFXHWMA/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-13
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4837
- https://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-three-new-cves/
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1379/
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1380/
Query this programmatically:
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