SaltStack Salt Shell Injection Vulnerability (CVE-2020-16846)
Severity: critical · Patch status: patched · Since 2021-11-03 · CVE-2020-16846
SaltStack Salt allows an unauthenticated user with network access to the Salt API to use shell injections to run code on the Salt API using the SSH client. This vulnerability affects any users running the Salt API. CISA added CVE-2020-16846 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Nov 3, 2021, which means attackers are exploiting it in the wild.
What to do
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- US federal agencies must remediate by May 3, 2022 (BOD 22-01); treat that as the outer limit.
Sources
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