CVE-2020-28243

high

Description

An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The minion's restartcheck is vulnerable to command injection via a crafted process name. This allows for a local privilege escalation by any user able to create a files on the minion in a non-blacklisted directory.

References

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https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5011

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202103-01

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YOGNT2XWPOYV7YT75DN7PS4GIYWFKOK5/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FUGLOJ6NXLCIFRD2JTXBYQEMAEF2B6XH/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7GRVZ5WAEI3XFN2BDTL6DDXFS5HYSDVB/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00000.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00009.html

https://sec.stealthcopter.com/cve-2020-28243/

https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/

https://github.com/stealthcopter/CVE-2020-28243

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-02-27

Updated: 2023-12-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.4

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01738