CVE-2020-28243

salt: Privilege escalation on a minion when an unprivileged user is able to create files in any non-blacklisted directory

Published Feb 27, 2021 CVSS 3.1 · 7.8 High EPSS 4.3% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

Sign in to view the affected projects.

Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2815-1 salt security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2480-2 salt regression update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5011-1 salt security update
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-phhw-3wc9-8q75 SaltStack Salt command injection via a crafted process name
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6948-1 Salt vulnerabilities
History

No history.

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 4:33 PM
Reserved
Nov 6, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Feb 27, 2021, 5:15 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:10 AM
Severity
Important
Public date
Feb 25, 2021, 12:00 AM