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CVE-2020-16846

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Date: November 6, 2020

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.

Language: Python

Severity Score

9.8

Related Resources (31)

Url: https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1379/

Url: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/3001.2.rst#L10

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TPOGB2F6XUAIGFDTOCQDNB2VIXFXHWMA

Url: https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1380

Url: https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1382

Url: https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1381

Url: https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1383/

Url: https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1383

Url: https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1381/

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TPOGB2F6XUAIGFDTOCQDNB2VIXFXHWMA/

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TPOGB2F6XUAIGFDTOCQDNB2VIXFXHWMA

Url: https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2020-104.yaml

Url: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-16846

Url: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/releases

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00007.html

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00000.html

Url: https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4837

Url: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/2019.2.6.rst#L10

Url: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/3000.4.rst#L10

Url: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/3002.1.rst#L12

Url: https://github.com/saltstack/salt

Url: https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1382/

Url: https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1380/

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-13

Url: https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1379

Url: https://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-three-new-cves

Url: http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160039/SaltStack-Salt-REST-API-Arbitrary-Command-Execution.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00029.html

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

Url: https://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-three-new-cves/

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2020-16846

Severity Score

9.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

CWE-78

Insufficient Information

NVD-CWE-noinfo

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version salt - 2015.8.13;salt - 2016.3.8;salt - 2016.11.10;salt - 2017.7.8;salt - 2018.3.5;salt - 2019.2.6;salt - 3000.4;salt - 3001.2;salt - 3002.1

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	9.8
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.5
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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CVE-2020-16846

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Date: November 6, 2020

Language: Python

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Related Resources (31)

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Top Fix

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CVSS v3.1

CVSS v2

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