CVE-2020-28243

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.

Summary:

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.

Reference Links(if available):

  • https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/
  • https://sec.stealthcopter.com/cve-2020-28243/
  • https://github.com/stealthcopter/CVE-2020-28243
  • https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/YOGNT2XWPOYV7YT75DN7PS4GIYWFKOK5/
  • https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/7GRVZ5WAEI3XFN2BDTL6DDXFS5HYSDVB/
  • CVSS Score (if available)

    v2: / MEDIUMAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

    v3: / HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

    Links to Exploits(if available)