CVE-2020-28243 (GCVE-0-2020-28243)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-02-27 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 16:33
VLAI
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
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      "aggregate_severity": "Important",
      "current_release_date": "2025-11-21T16:20:36+00:00",
      "cve": "CVE-2020-28243",
      "id": "CVE-2020-28243",
      "initial_release_date": "2020-01-01T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:known_affected": "2",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "salt: Privilege escalation on a minion when an unprivileged user is able to create files in any non-blacklisted directory",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2020/cve-2020-28243.json",
      "version": "3"
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      "aggregate_severity": "important",
      "current_release_date": "2026-05-27T05:46:16Z",
      "cve": "CVE-2020-28243",
      "id": "CVE-2020-28243",
      "initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T03:52:03Z",
      "product_status:known_affected": "374",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "122",
      "product_status:recommended": "840",
      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2020-28243",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2020-28243.json",
      "version": "38"
    }
  }
}



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