Critical
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-16846
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:54 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2020-16846
Complete source record
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"https://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-three-new-cves/",
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