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CVE-2020-16846
CWE-78
Critical
103.8
RPSRPS range: 0–105; KEV-listed vulnerabilities can receive an exploitation amplifier.
Description
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.
Source: NVD
Signals
- CVSS
- 9.8
- Critical · v3.1
- EPSS
- 99.58%
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (FIRST)
- CISA KEV
- In CISA KEV since Nov 2021
- Fix commit
- Fix commit known
- Sources: MoreFixes, FreshFixes
- Weakness
- CWE-78
- Published
- 6 Nov 2020
- Last modified 7 Nov 2025
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Data as of 7 Oct 2026, 05:16 UK time