CVE-2020-16846 The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package salt (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
Snyk has reported that there have been attempts or successful attacks targeting this vulnerability.
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- published5 Nov 2020
- disclosed6 Nov 2020
Introduced: 5 Nov 2020
CVE-2020-16846 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream salt package and not the salt package as distributed by Debian.
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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-16846
- https://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-three-new-cves/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4837
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TPOGB2F6XUAIGFDTOCQDNB2VIXFXHWMA/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-13
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160039/SaltStack-Salt-REST-API-Arbitrary-Command-Execution.html
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt/releases
- 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/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00007.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00029.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://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2020/CVE-2020-16846.yaml