CVE-2020-28243

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Published 2022-05-24 · Modified 2024-04-22

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CVSS v3

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
PyPI	salt	`<2015.8.13`	`2015.8.13`
PyPI	salt	`>=2016.3.0,<2016.11.5`	`2016.11.5`
PyPI	salt	`>=2016.11.7,<2016.11.10`	`2016.11.10`
PyPI	salt	`>=2017.5.0,<2017.7.8`	`2017.7.8`
PyPI	salt	`>=2018.2.0,<=2018.3.5`
PyPI	salt	`>=2019.2.0,<2019.2.8`	`2019.2.8`
PyPI	salt	`>=3000,<3000.7`	`3000.7`
PyPI	salt	`>=3001,<3001.5`	`3001.5`
PyPI	salt	`>=3002,<3002.3`	`3002.3`
PyPI	salt	`>=3002,<3002.5`	`2015.8.10`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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