CVE-2020-28243

HIGH7.8EPSS 1.4%

salt - security update

Published: 5/24/2022Modified: 3/9/2026

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.

Affected packages (3)

  • Debian/saltfrom 0, < 2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u7
  • PyPI/saltfrom 0, < 2015.8.13
  • PyPI/saltfrom 0, < 2015.8.10, >= 2015.8.11, < 2015.8.13, >= 2016.3.0, < 2016.3.4, >= 2016.3.5, < 2016.3.6, >= 2016.3.7, < 2016.3.8, >= 2016.11.0, < 2016.11.3, >= 2016.11.4, < 2016.11.5, >= 2016.11.7, < 2016.11.10, >= 2017.7.0, < 2017.7.8, >= 2018.3.0rc1, < 2019.2.0rc1, >= 2019.2.0, < 2019.2.5, >= 2019.2.6, < 2019.2.8, >= 3000, < 3000.6, >= 3001, < 3001.4, >= 3002, < 3002.5

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (25)