CRITICALCVSS v3.1 9.8Actively exploited · CISA KEV since 2021-11-03Vulnerability
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.
Properties
- Vulnerability name
- SaltStack Salt Shell Injection Vulnerability
- First seen
- 2025-10-21T23:35:33+00:00
- Cvss score
- 9.8
- Epss score
- 0.99585
- Last seen
- 2026-10-19T12:00:27+00:00
- Due date
- 2022-05-03
- Euvd assigner
- mitre
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-21T01:24:47+00:00
- Exploited euvd since
- 2021-11-03T00:00:00+00:00
- Src batch id
- epss_history-20261020T103617Z-728ddd
- Source url
- https://epss.empiricalsecurity.com/epss_scores-2026-10-19.csv.gz
- Date added
- 2021-11-03
- Score
- 9.8
- Euvd base score version
- 3.1
- Fetched at
- 2026-10-20T10:36:20+00:00
- Cvss vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- In Signal since
- initial import (Sep 2026)
- Euvd base score
- 9.8
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Vendor project
- SaltStack
Related Entities (10)
AFFECTS_PRODUCT (7)
DESCRIBES (1)
HAS_WEAKNESS (1)
INVOLVES (1)
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