nuclei-templates/cves/2020/CVE-2020-16846.yaml

id: CVE-2020-16846

info:
  name: SaltStack <=3002 - Shell Injection
  author: dwisiswant0
  severity: critical
  description: SaltStack Salt through 3002 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.
  reference:
    - https://saltproject.io/on-november-3-2020-saltstack-publicly-disclosed-three-new-cves/
    - https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/R8qw_lWizGyeJS0jOcYXag
    - https://github.com/vulhub/vulhub/tree/master/saltstack/CVE-2020-16846
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16846
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    cvss-score: 9.8
    cve-id: CVE-2020-16846
    cwe-id: CWE-78
  tags: cve,cve2020,saltstack

requests:
  - method: POST
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/run"
    body: "token=1337&client=ssh&tgt=*&fun=a&roster=projectdiscovery&ssh_priv=nuclei"
    headers:
      Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded # CherryPy will abort w/o define this header
    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: status
        status:
          - 500
      - type: word
        words:
          - "application/json"
        part: header
      - type: word
        words:
          - "An unexpected error occurred"
        part: body

# Enhanced by mp on 2022/04/27