CVE-2020-8028

CRITICAL

SUSE Manager <4.1 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A Improper Access Control vulnerability in the configuration of salt of SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for SUSE Manager Server 4.1, SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0, SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0, SUSE Manager Server 3.2, SUSE Manager Server 4.0 allows local users to escalate to root on every system managed by SUSE manager. On the managing node itself code can be executed as user salt, potentially allowing for escalation to root there. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for SUSE Manager Server 4.1 google-gson versions prior to 2.8.5-3.4.3, httpcomponents-client-4.5.6-3.4.2, httpcomponents-. SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0 release-notes-susemanager-proxy versions prior to 4.0.9-0.16.38.1. SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0 release-notes-susemanager-proxy versions prior to 4.0.9-0.16.38.1. SUSE Manager Server 3.2 salt-netapi-client versions prior to 0.16.0-4.14.1, spacewalk-. SUSE Manager Server 4.0 release-notes-susemanager versions prior to 4.0.9-3.54.1.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1175884

Scores

CVSS v3 9.3
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 9.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-284
Status published
Products (1)
suse/salt-netapi-client < 0.17.0-3.3.2
Published Sep 17, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026