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CVE-2020-16846 Unmapped
SaltStack Salt Shell Injection Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- SaltStack — Salt
- Description (CISA)
- 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.
- Added to KEV
- 2021-11-03
- Due date
- 2022-05-03
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware use
- Unknown
- CWE
- CWE-78
- CISA notes
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16846
- Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2020-16846. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-78) — here is why — and does not guess.
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