{"document":{"aggregate_severity":{"namespace":"https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/","text":"Important"},"category":"csaf_vex","csaf_version":"2.0","distribution":{"text":"Copyright © Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved.","tlp":{"label":"WHITE","url":"https://www.first.org/tlp/"}},"lang":"en","notes":[{"category":"legal_disclaimer","text":"This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.","title":"Terms of Use"}],"publisher":{"category":"vendor","contact_details":"https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/","issuing_authority":"Red Hat Product Security is responsible for vulnerability handling across all Red Hat products and services.","name":"Red Hat Product Security","namespace":"https://www.redhat.com"},"references":[{"category":"self","summary":"Canonical URL","url":"https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2020/cve-2020-16846.json"}],"title":"salt: sending crafted web requests to the Salt API, with the SSH client enabled, can result in shell injection","tracking":{"current_release_date":"2025-11-21T13:53:11+00:00","generator":{"date":"2025-11-21T13:53:11+00:00","engine":{"name":"Red Hat SDEngine","version":"4.6.12"}},"id":"CVE-2020-16846","initial_release_date":"2020-11-03T00:00:00+00:00","revision_history":[{"date":"2020-11-03T00:00:00+00:00","number":"1","summary":"Initial version"},{"date":"2025-02-06T15:20:23+00:00","number":"2","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2025-11-21T13:53:11+00:00","number":"3","summary":"Last generated version"}],"status":"final","version":"3"}},"product_tree":{"branches":[{"branches":[{"branches":[{"category":"product_name","name":"Red Hat Ceph Storage 2","product":{"name":"Red Hat Ceph Storage 2","product_id":"red_hat_ceph_storage_2","product_identification_helper":{"cpe":"cpe:/a:redhat:ceph_storage:2"}}}],"category":"product_family","name":"Red Hat Ceph Storage 2"},{"category":"product_version","name":"salt-minion","product":{"name":"salt-minion","product_id":"salt-minion","product_identification_helper":{"purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/salt-minion"}}},{"category":"product_version","name":"salt","product":{"name":"salt","product_id":"salt","product_identification_helper":{"purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/salt?arch=src"}}}],"category":"vendor","name":"Red Hat"}],"relationships":[{"category":"default_component_of","full_product_name":{"name":"salt as a component of Red Hat Ceph Storage 2","product_id":"red_hat_ceph_storage_2:salt"},"product_reference":"salt","relates_to_product_reference":"red_hat_ceph_storage_2"},{"category":"default_component_of","full_product_name":{"name":"salt-minion as a component of Red Hat Ceph Storage 2","product_id":"red_hat_ceph_storage_2:salt-minion"},"product_reference":"salt-minion","relates_to_product_reference":"red_hat_ceph_storage_2"}]},"vulnerabilities":[{"cve":"CVE-2020-16846","cwe":{"id":"CWE-78","name":"Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')"},"discovery_date":"2020-11-05T00:00:00+00:00","ids":[{"system_name":"Red Hat Bugzilla ID","text":"1895449"}],"notes":[{"category":"description","text":"A flaw was found in salt. A shell injection vulnerability was found where an unauthenticated user with network access to the Salt API can use shell injections to run code on the Salt-API using the SSH client. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service, information disclosure, or privilege escalation. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.","title":"Vulnerability description"},{"category":"summary","text":"salt: sending crafted web requests to the Salt API, with the SSH client enabled, can result in shell injection","title":"Vulnerability summary"},{"category":"other","text":"Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 shipped salt for the usage of Red Hat Storage Console 2 (RHSCON-2), which required salt to administrate ceph nodes. RHSCON-2 has reached End Of Life, hence salt is no longer used and supported. Therefore, the salt package provided by Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 has been marked as 'will not fix'.","title":"Statement"},{"category":"general","text":"The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.","title":"CVSS score applicability"}],"product_status":{"known_affected":["red_hat_ceph_storage_2:salt","red_hat_ceph_storage_2:salt-minion"]},"references":[{"category":"self","summary":"Canonical URL","url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16846"},{"category":"external","summary":"RHBZ#1895449","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895449"},{"category":"external","summary":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-16846","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-16846"},{"category":"external","summary":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16846","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16846"},{"category":"external","summary":"https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2019.2.6.html","url":"https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2019.2.6.html"},{"category":"external","summary":"https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/3000.4.html","url":"https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/3000.4.html"},{"category":"external","summary":"https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/3001.2.html","url":"https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/3001.2.html"},{"category":"external","summary":"https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/3002.1.html","url":"https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/3002.1.html"},{"category":"external","summary":"https://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-three-new-cves/","url":"https://www.saltstack.com/blog/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-three-new-cves/"},{"category":"external","summary":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","url":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog"}],"release_date":"2020-11-03T00:00:00+00:00","remediations":[{"category":"workaround","details":"Red Hat has investigated whether a possible mitigation exists for this issue, and has not been able to identify a practical example. Please update as soon as possible.","product_ids":["red_hat_ceph_storage_2:salt","red_hat_ceph_storage_2:salt-minion"]},{"category":"no_fix_planned","details":"Will not fix","product_ids":["red_hat_ceph_storage_2:salt","red_hat_ceph_storage_2:salt-minion"]}],"scores":[{"cvss_v3":{"attackComplexity":"LOW","attackVector":"NETWORK","availabilityImpact":"HIGH","baseScore":9.8,"baseSeverity":"CRITICAL","confidentialityImpact":"HIGH","integrityImpact":"HIGH","privilegesRequired":"NONE","scope":"UNCHANGED","userInteraction":"NONE","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"products":["red_hat_ceph_storage_2:salt","red_hat_ceph_storage_2:salt-minion"]}],"threats":[{"category":"exploit_status","date":"2021-11-03T00:00:00+00:00","details":"CISA: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog"},{"category":"impact","details":"Important","product_ids":["red_hat_ceph_storage_2:salt","red_hat_ceph_storage_2:salt-minion"]}],"title":"salt: sending crafted web requests to the Salt API, with the SSH client enabled, can result in shell injection"}]}