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
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (25)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28243
- PATCHhttps://github.com/saltstack/salt
- WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2021-73.yaml
- WEBhttps://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/3000.7.rst#L12
- WEBhttps://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/3001.5.rst#L12
- WEBhttps://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/3002.3.rst#L12
- WEBhttps://github.com/stealthcopter/CVE-2020-28243
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00009.html
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00000.html
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7GRVZ5WAEI3XFN2BDTL6DDXFS5HYSDVB
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FUGLOJ6NXLCIFRD2JTXBYQEMAEF2B6XH
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YOGNT2XWPOYV7YT75DN7PS4GIYWFKOK5
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/7GRVZ5WAEI3XFN2BDTL6DDXFS5HYSDVB
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/7GRVZ5WAEI3XFN2BDTL6DDXFS5HYSDVB/
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/FUGLOJ6NXLCIFRD2JTXBYQEMAEF2B6XH
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/FUGLOJ6NXLCIFRD2JTXBYQEMAEF2B6XH/
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/YOGNT2XWPOYV7YT75DN7PS4GIYWFKOK5
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/YOGNT2XWPOYV7YT75DN7PS4GIYWFKOK5/
- WEBhttps://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25
- WEBhttps://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/
- WEBhttps://sec.stealthcopter.com/cve-2020-28243
- WEBhttps://sec.stealthcopter.com/cve-2020-28243/
- WEBhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202103-01
- WEBhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22
- WEBhttps://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5011