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CVE-2020-28243

Published: 27 February 2021

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.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
salt
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Needs triage

focal Does not exist

groovy Ignored
(end of life)
hirsute Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Needs triage

upstream Needs triage

xenial Needs triage

impish Ignored
(end of life)
kinetic Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
jammy Needs triage

lunar Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.8
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H