GHSA-qr38-h96j-2j3wCriticalCVSS 9.8

SaltStack Salt Command Injection in netapi ssh client

Published
May 24, 2022
Last Modified
October 22, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2020-16846 →

📋 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.

🎯 Affected products9

  • pip/salt:< 2015.8.13
  • pip/salt:>= 2016.3.0, < 2016.3.8
  • pip/salt:>= 2016.11.0, < 2016.11.10
  • pip/salt:>= 2017.5.0, < 2017.7.8
  • pip/salt:>= 2018.2.0, < 2018.3.5
  • pip/salt:>= 2019.2.0, < 2019.2.6
  • pip/salt:>= 3000.0, < 3000.4
  • pip/salt:>= 3001, < 3001.2
  • pip/salt:>= 3002, < 3002.1

🔗 References (23)