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CVE-2020-16846

Critical CVSS 9.8 Known exploited

Published 2020-11-06 · last changed 2026-06-17 · added to CISA KEV 2021-11-03

This one is being exploited in the wild.

CISA added CVE-2020-16846 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2021-11-03. Federal agencies are required to remediate it on a deadline. If you have affected machines, this is the class of finding that moves ahead of the rest of the queue.

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-2020-16846, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

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.

Sources

CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H