UBUNTU-CVE-2020-16846

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2020-16846

    Published: 6 Nov 2020Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2020-16846

    Summary:

    Details: 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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-16846, https://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-three-new-cves/, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-16846, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6948-1, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7181-1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: salt

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm4?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy/trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.17.5+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm4

    Affected versions

    0.16.0-1
    0.16.4-2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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