Remote Code Execution (RCE) Affecting salt package, versions [,3000.4)[3001,3001.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
96.86% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-SALT-1037600
  • published8 Nov 2020
  • disclosed6 Nov 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Nov 2020

CVE-2020-16846  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How 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