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SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-qr38-h96j-2j3w)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 435720

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2020-16846)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qr38-h96j-2j3w

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 435720

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 10/22/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-16846

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/5/2020

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 5/3/2022

Exploitable With

Metasploit (SaltStack Salt REST API Arbitrary Command Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-16846

cwe: CWE-78