Remote Code Execution (RCE) Affecting salt package, versions [,3000.4) [3001,3001.2)
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
97.34% (100th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-SALT-1037600
- published 8 Nov 2020
- disclosed 6 Nov 2020
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 6 Nov 2020
CVE-2020-16846 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade salt to version 3000.4, 3001.2 or higher.
Overview
salt is a new approach to infrastructure management built on a dynamic communication bus. Salt can be used for data-driven orchestration, remote execution for any infrastructure, configuration management for any app stack, and much more.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE). Sending crafted web requests to the Salt API, with the SSH client enabled, can result in shell injection.
CVSS Scores
version 3.1