CVE-2020-16846
SaltStack Salt Shell Injection Vulnerability
What is affected
| Vendor | SaltStack |
|---|---|
| Product | Salt |
| Weakness | CWE-78 |
The vulnerability
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.
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 3 May 2022 under BOD 22-01. The deadline is a compliance date, not a measure of severity — it says nothing about how dangerous the flaw is to anyone else.
Where this comes from
Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 12 Nov 2026, 12:25. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.