CVE-2020-28243 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/ https://sec.stealthcopter.com/cve-2020-28243/ https://github.com/stealthcopter/CVE-2020-28243 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YOGNT2XWPOYV7YT75DN7PS4GIYWFKOK5/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7GRVZ5WAEI3XFN2BDTL6DDXFS5HYSDVB/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FUGLOJ6NXLCIFRD2JTXBYQEMAEF2B6XH/ https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202103-01 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00009.html https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5011 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00000.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8