CVE-2020-28243 — Vulnetix

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CVE-2020-28243 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 1.73% · 82.3th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

1.73%

82.3th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:22.04:LTS	salt	0, 3004.1+dfsg-2, 3004+dfsg1-8
Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS	salt	2016.11.5+ds-1, 0, 2016.11.8+dfsg1-1
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS	salt	0.17.2-2, 0.17.2-1, 0.17.1+dfsg-1

Timeline

Feb 26, 2021 CVE Published
Mar 31, 2021 PoC Published
Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
Jun 22, 2021 EPSS Score
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Dec 25, 2021 EPSS Score
Feb 25, 2022 EPSS Score
Jun 29, 2022 EPSS Score
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Nov 1, 2022 EPSS Score
Jan 2, 2023 EPSS Score
Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-28243 third-party-advisory
https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/ third-party-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-28243 third-party-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6948-1 vendor-advisory

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