| Name | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-2480-1, DSA-4837-1, ELA-537-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| salt (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2014.1.13+ds-3+deb8u2 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u10 | fixed | |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| salt | source | jessie | 2014.1.13+ds-3+deb8u2 | ELA-537-1 | ||
| salt | source | stretch | 2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u6 | DLA-2480-1 | ||
| salt | source | buster | 2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u2 | DSA-4837-1 | ||
| salt | source | (unstable) | 3002.1+dfsg1-1 |
https://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-three-new-cves/
https://gitlab.com/saltstack/open/salt-patches/tree/master/patches/2020/09/02/
Regression: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/58970
Regression fix: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/84d91931865626a9b53558f88d6c8919a270df3a (v3000.6)