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CVE-2020-28243
February 27, 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.
Affected Packages
salt (PYTHON):
Affected version(s) >=3002 <3002.3
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3002.3
salt (PYTHON):
Affected version(s) >=3001 <3001.5
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3001.5
salt (PYTHON):
Affected version(s) >=2019.2.0 <2019.2.8
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 2019.2.8
salt (PYTHON):
Affected version(s) >=0.8.7 <2015.8.13
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 2015.8.13
salt (PYTHON):
Affected version(s) >=2016.11.7 <2016.11.10
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 2016.11.10
salt (PYTHON):
Affected version(s) >=2016.3.0 <2016.11.5
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 2016.11.5
salt (PYTHON):
Affected version(s) >=3000 <3000.7
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3000.7
salt (PYTHON):
Affected version(s) >=2017.7.0rc1 <2017.7.8
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 2017.7.8
Related Resources (25)
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/3000.7.rst#L12
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YOGNT2XWPOYV7YT75DN7PS4GIYWFKOK5
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://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/
https://sec.stealthcopter.com/cve-2020-28243/
https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YOGNT2XWPOYV7YT75DN7PS4GIYWFKOK5/
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/3001.5.rst#L12
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FUGLOJ6NXLCIFRD2JTXBYQEMAEF2B6XH/
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/FUGLOJ6NXLCIFRD2JTXBYQEMAEF2B6XH
https://github.com/saltstack/salt
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2021-73.yaml
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7GRVZ5WAEI3XFN2BDTL6DDXFS5HYSDVB
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7GRVZ5WAEI3XFN2BDTL6DDXFS5HYSDVB/
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/8f9405cf8e6f7d7776d5000841c886dec6d96250/doc/topics/releases/3002.3.rst#L12
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YOGNT2XWPOYV7YT75DN7PS4GIYWFKOK5
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28243
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FUGLOJ6NXLCIFRD2JTXBYQEMAEF2B6XH
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00000.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7GRVZ5WAEI3XFN2BDTL6DDXFS5HYSDVB
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CVSS v4
Base Score:
8.5
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
HIGH
Vulnerable System Integrity
HIGH
Vulnerable System Availability
HIGH
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
7.8
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
CVSS v2
Base Score:
4.4
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Weakness Type (CWE)
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')
CWE-77
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')
CWE-78
EPSS
Base Score:
1.73