CVE-2020-28243

moderate-risk

Published 2021-02-27

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.

Do I need to act?

1.7% chance of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS score — moderate exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 7.8/10 High

LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (7)

Salt

Fedora

Debian Linux

Affected Vendors

Debian Fedoraproject Saltstack

References (22)

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

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

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

Mailing List https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...

Vendor Advisory https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-...

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

Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202103-01

Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22

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

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

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

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

Mailing List https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...

Vendor Advisory https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-...

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

Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202103-01

and 2 more references

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moderate-risk

Severity 24/34 · High

Exploitability 5/34 · Minimal

Exposure 14/34 · Moderate