Risk Letters

Exploited vulnerability

CVE-2020-16846

TLP:CLEAR

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.

Facts

  • Vendor: SaltStack
  • Product: Salt
  • CVSS: 9.8
  • EPSS (probability of exploitation within 30 days): 99.6 %
  • On CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list since: 3 November 2021
  • First known exploitation: 3 November 2021
  • CISA's deadline for US federal agencies: 3 May 2022
  • Weakness: CWE-78
  • First seen by Risk Letters: 3 November 2021

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Data: NVD (public domain), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, MITRE ATT&CK, AlienVault OTX. NVD