CVE Watch—

CVE-2020-16846

SaltStack Salt Shell Injection Vulnerability

CVSS

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No CVSS

EPSS

99.6%

p100

KEV

YES

Nov 3, 2021

Exploit Today

0-100

Published: — · Last modified: —

EPSS · 30d

99.6%EPSS · 30 days99.6%

2026-09-162026-10-14

KEV catalog record

Product

SaltStack / Salt

Vulnerability

SaltStack Salt Shell Injection Vulnerability

Added to KEV

Nov 3, 2021

Remediate by

May 3, 2022

Known ransomware use

Summary 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.

Notes

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16846

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