CVE-2020-16846
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.
Attention and evidence
Evidence confidence: Exploitation recorded
Hype components
Sources and documents
Score evolution
● Hype ● Reality
Earlier evidence-support scores are retained in history; this chart shows only the current priority definition.
First record: hype 0.0 · reality 9.0 (2026-11-02 15:12). The curve appears once the score changes.
Public exploit evidence
Public exploit entries / repo candidates
Evidence context and dated references
Reality is general threat/review priority, combining observed exploitation, CVSS severity and fresh EPSS. Evidence confidence is separate. This is not calibrated risk, a victim count or an asset-specific assessment. A range reflects missing numeric inputs.
Evidence in context
- Confidence in exploitation evidence
- Exploitation recorded
- Priority basis
- Recorded exploitation; CVSS 9.8; EPSS 99.6%
- Attention, last 30 days
- 0 distinct story titles; 0 press documents; 0 publisher domains.
- Technical potential
- network access, no prior privileges, no user interaction.
- Observed activity
- Exploitation recorded in CISA KEV.
- Known scale
- Not quantified.
- Evidence confidence basis
- Trusted exploitation confirmation
Score evaluated: 2026-11-05 13:58:14.320098+00:00 · EPSS snapshot: 2026-11-05T12:03:04Z