November 3, 2021 · Applied Cybernetics Group
CVE-2020-16846 — SaltStack Salt
SaltStack Salt Shell Injection Vulnerability
- Added to KEV
2021-11-03- Federal due date
2022-05-03- Vendor
- SaltStack
- Product
- Salt
- EPSS
- 100.0th percentile (score 0.944, as of
2026-06-08) - NVD CVSS v3.1
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- Ransomware use
- Unknown
- Upstream
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16846
CISA short description
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.
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.