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CVE-2020-16846

OS Command Injection: Is CVE-2020-16846 real, exploitable, or a false positive? Here's the community verdict.

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Exploited in wild
Yes
CISA KEV
Public exploit
Metasploit
Metasploit/EDB/PoC
Base severity
9.8 Critical
CVSS
Exploitation prob.
100%
FIRST EPSS
Weakness
CWE-78 · OS Command Injection
CWE

Confirmed exploited in the wild. Patch this first, regardless of the base score.

public exploits

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baseline read

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Real — exploited in the wild

CISA confirms active exploitation. Treat scanner hits as true positives unless your specific version or config is unaffected.

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

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.

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  • 0
    Field note · TruePositive EditorialCurated

    SaltStack Salt Shell Injection 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. Listed in the CISA KEV catalog (added 2021-11-03) — confirmed exploited in the wild, not theoretical. FIRST EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at ~100%. Treat it as real and prioritize remediation over triage.

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    Remediation · TruePositive EditorialCurated

    Required action for SaltStack Salt: Apply updates per vendor instructions. CISA set a federal remediation due date of 2022-05-03. After patching, verify the vulnerable path is no longer reachable before closing the finding.

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Same weakness: CWE-78 · OS Command Injection.