CVE-2020-28243
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...
- Published
- Feb 27, 2021
- Updated
- Aug 4, 2024
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Evidence observed
- Aug 4, 2026
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 90.7%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
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.
Sources
1- CVE-2020-28243Exploit
CVE-2020-28243 Local Privledge Escalation Exploit in SaltStack Minion
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