CVE-2020-28243

HIGH

Salt < 2015.8.10 - Command Injection

Title source: rule

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.

Exploits (1)

nomisec WORKING POC 18 stars

by stealthcopter · poc

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

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References (11)

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/stealthcopter/CVE-2020-28243

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00009.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00000.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7GRVZ5WAEI3XFN2BDTL6DDXFS5HYSDVB/

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FUGLOJ6NXLCIFRD2JTXBYQEMAEF2B6XH/

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YOGNT2XWPOYV7YT75DN7PS4GIYWFKOK5/

[Vendor Advisory] https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] 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

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0141

EPSS Percentile 80.5%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Details

CWE

CWE-77

Status published

Products (8)

debian/debian_linux 9.0

debian/debian_linux 10.0

debian/debian_linux 11.0

fedoraproject/fedora 32

fedoraproject/fedora 33

fedoraproject/fedora 34

pypi/salt 0 - 2015.8.13PyPI

saltstack/salt < 2015.8.10

Published Feb 27, 2021

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026