{
    "id": "CVE-2020-16846",
    "published": "2020-11-06 08:15:13",
    "last_modified": "2026-06-17 02:58:07",
    "cvss_score": "9.8",
    "cvss_severity": "CRITICAL",
    "cvss_version": "3.1",
    "cvss_vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "cwe": "CWE-78",
    "description": "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.",
    "epss_score": "0.99585",
    "epss_percentile": "0.99946",
    "kev": 1,
    "kev_due": "2022-05-03",
    "has_exploit": 0,
    "updated_at": "2026-09-26 18:26:39",
    "priority": {
        "rank": 1,
        "label": "Patch first",
        "why": "On CISA KEV — known exploited in the wild, due 2022-05-03."
    },
    "products": [
        {
            "vendor": "debian",
            "product": "debian_linux"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "fedoraproject",
            "product": "fedora"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "opensuse",
            "product": "leap"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "saltstack",
            "product": "salt"
        }
    ],
    "kev_detail": {
        "cve_id": "CVE-2020-16846",
        "date_added": "2021-11-03",
        "due_date": "2022-05-03",
        "vendor": "SaltStack",
        "product": "Salt",
        "name": "SaltStack Salt Shell Injection Vulnerability",
        "ransomware": 0
    },
    "exploits": [],
    "refs_list": [
        "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.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/",
        "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.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/"
    ]
}