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High
CVE-2020-28243
An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. The...
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/
- https://github.com/stealthcopter/CVE-2020-28243
- https://sec.stealthcopter.com/cve-2020-28243/
- 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/7GRVZ5WAEI3XFN2BDTL6DDXFS5HYSDVB/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FUGLOJ6NXLCIFRD2JTXBYQEMAEF2B6XH/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202103-01
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00009.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5011
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00000.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22
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Affected Vendor
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View all reports →Affected Software
salt, fedora, debian linux
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 2015.8.11, 2016.3.0, 2016.3.5, 2016.3.7, 2016.3.9, 2016.11.4, 2016.11.7, 2017.5.0, 2018.2.0, 2019.2.0, 2019.2.6, 3000, 3001, 3002, 32, 33, 34, 9.0, 10.0, 11.0
Timeline
Official Publish:
February 27th, 2021
Last Modified:
August 4th, 2024
Added to House:
July 21st, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.