CVE-2020-16846

highpriority · act · 90OT risk · criticalKEV · exploitedEPSS 0.996 · 100 %ileexploit · weaponizedDEEURUUS

grimoire priorityP0 · Act now

Exploitable?

Yes · in the wild

CISA KEV · 3 exploits · weaponized

Likely / severe?

99.6% (100th) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

69 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · osv

added 2021-11-03remediate by 2022-05-03

required action Apply updates per vendor instructions.

EPSS · scored 2026-10-26

SaltStack Salt Shell Injection Vulnerability

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.5–9.8

v2.07.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 6.4

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.19.8criticalAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondaryexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-78USprimaryCWE-78USCWE-78US

exploits (3)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

exploit/linux/http/saltstack_salt_api_cmd_execSaltStack Salt REST API Arbitrary Command Executionweaponized · metasploit
hamza-boudouche/projet-secuCVE-2020-16846PoC · poc_in_github
zomy22/CVE-2020-16846-Saltstack-Salt-APIzomy22/CVE-2020-16846-Saltstack-Salt-APIPoC · poc_in_github

affected products (69)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Debian Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:-
Gentoo Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:gentoo:linux:-
Open Source Arch Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:archlinux:archlinux:-
SUSE Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:-
SaltStack Salt <2019.2.6all versionscert_bundDE
SaltStack Salt <2019.2.7all versionscert_bundDE
SaltStack Salt <3000.4all versionscert_bundDE
SaltStack Salt <3000.5all versionscert_bundDE
SaltStack Salt <3001.2all versionscert_bundDE
SaltStack Salt <3001.3all versionscert_bundDE
SaltStack Salt <3002.1all versionscert_bundDE
Ubuntu Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:-
SaltStack Salt< 2019.2.6cert_bundDE
SaltStack Salt< 2019.2.7cert_bundDE
SaltStack Salt< 3000.4cert_bundDE
SaltStack Salt< 3000.5cert_bundDE
SaltStack Salt< 3001.2cert_bundDE
SaltStack Salt< 3001.3cert_bundDE
SaltStack Salt< 3002.1cert_bundDE
n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU

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advisories (3)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2024-1801SaltStack Salt: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2020-11-03csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in SaltStack Salt ausnutzen, um beliebigen Programmcode auszuführen, Informationen offenzulegen und die Authentisierung zu umgehen.
GHSA-qr38-h96j-2j3wSaltStack Salt Command Injection in netapi ssh client2022-05-24ghsa · osvUS
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.
PYSEC-2020-1042020-11-06vendor · osvUS
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.

also known as (7)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu osv cert_bund NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2020-11-06modified 2026-06-17

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references (54)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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