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CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

This CVE is actively exploited in the wild. CISA mandates federal agencies to patch immediately.

CVE

CVE-2020-16846

9.8

CVSScritical

Exploitable remotely over the internet · no authentication required.

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.

Attack Vector

Network

Privileges Req.

None

User Interaction

None

Updated Oct 12, 2026View on NVD →

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