CVE-2020-28243
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-28243
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-28243.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-28243
- Aliases
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2021-02-27T05:15:13.630Z
- Modified
- 2026-02-11T14:27:03.331402Z
- Severity
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- 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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.
- References
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- https://github.com/stealthcopter/CVE-2020-28243
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00009.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00000.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7GRVZ5WAEI3XFN2BDTL6DDXFS5HYSDVB/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FUGLOJ6NXLCIFRD2JTXBYQEMAEF2B6XH/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YOGNT2XWPOYV7YT75DN7PS4GIYWFKOK5/
- https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/
- https://sec.stealthcopter.com/cve-2020-28243/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202103-01
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5011
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00009.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00000.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7GRVZ5WAEI3XFN2BDTL6DDXFS5HYSDVB/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FUGLOJ6NXLCIFRD2JTXBYQEMAEF2B6XH/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YOGNT2XWPOYV7YT75DN7PS4GIYWFKOK5/
- https://github.com/stealthcopter/CVE-2020-28243
- https://sec.stealthcopter.com/cve-2020-28243/
Affected packages
Git / github.com/saltstack/salt
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt
- Events
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Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixedIntroduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixedIntroduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixedIntroducedFixedIntroducedFixedIntroducedFixedIntroducedFixedIntroducedFixedIntroducedFixedIntroducedFixedIntroducedFixedIntroducedFixedIntroducedFixedIntroducedFixed
Affected versions
old-branch-2014.*
old-branch-2014.7
old-branch-2015.*
old-branch-2015.5
old-branch-2015.8
v2015.*
v2015.8.11
v2015.8.12
v2015.8.13
v2016.*
v2016.11
v2016.11.0
v2016.11.0rc1
v2016.11.0rc2
v2016.11.1
v2016.11.2
v2016.3.0
v2016.3.1
v2016.3.2
v2016.3.3
v2016.3.4
v2016.3.5
v2016.9
v2019.*
v2019.2.0