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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2815-1 salt security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2480-2 salt regression update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5011-1 salt security update
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-phhw-3wc9-8q75 SaltStack Salt command injection via a crafted process name
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6948-1 Salt vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T16:33:58.250Z

Reserved: 2020-11-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-28243

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-02-27T05:15:13.630

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:22:30.490

Link: CVE-2020-28243

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2021-02-25T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-28243 - Bugzilla

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