CVE-2020-16846

CVSS V2 High 7.5 CVSS V3 Critical 9.8
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2020-16846
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2020-11-06T08:15:13
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2022-02-22T10:09:24
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-78 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/78.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2015.8.10
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2015.8.11 2015.8.13
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2016.3.0 2016.3.4
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2016.3.5 2016.3.6
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2016.3.7 2016.3.8
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2016.11.0 2016.11.3
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2016.11.4 2016.11.6
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2016.11.7 2016.11.10
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2017.5.0 2017.7.4
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2017.7.5 2017.7.8
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2018.2.0 2018.3.5
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2019.2.0 2019.2.5
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 3000.0 3000.3
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:3001:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 7.5
  • Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 6.4
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 9.8
  • Base Severity
  • CRITICAL
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/releases Third Party Advisory
https://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-three-new-cves/ Vendor Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TPOGB2F6XUAIGFDTOCQDNB2VIXFXHWMA/ Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00029.html Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-13 Third Party Advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160039/SaltStack-Salt-REST-API-Arbitrary-Command-Execution.html Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1380/ Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1379/ Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1383/ Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1381/ Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1382/ Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00007.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4837 Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00000.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16846
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16846
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 06:32:02 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-05 16:12:27 2020-11-06T08:15Z 2020-11-06T08:15:13 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-05 16:12:27 2022-02-22T10:09:24 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-05 16:12:27 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated