Confirmed as exploited
CVE-2020-16846
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.
01 / ACTION
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
89 explicit affected versions
144 explicit affected versions
156 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
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.
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.
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.
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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- 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.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-16846
- 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/
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qr38-h96j-2j3w
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/TPOGB2F6XUAIGFDTOCQDNB2VIXFXHWMA/
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2020-104.yaml
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/2019.2.6.rst#L10
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/3000.4.rst#L10
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/3001.2.rst#L10
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/3002.1.rst#L12
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TPOGB2F6XUAIGFDTOCQDNB2VIXFXHWMA
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/TPOGB2F6XUAIGFDTOCQDNB2VIXFXHWMA
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16846
- 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