FKIE_CVE-2020-28243

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2021-02-27 05:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 03:10
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/stealthcopter/CVE-2020-28243Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00009.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00000.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7GRVZ5WAEI3XFN2BDTL6DDXFS5HYSDVB/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FUGLOJ6NXLCIFRD2JTXBYQEMAEF2B6XH/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YOGNT2XWPOYV7YT75DN7PS4GIYWFKOK5/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://sec.stealthcopter.com/cve-2020-28243/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202103-01Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5011Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/stealthcopter/CVE-2020-28243Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00009.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00000.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7GRVZ5WAEI3XFN2BDTL6DDXFS5HYSDVB/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FUGLOJ6NXLCIFRD2JTXBYQEMAEF2B6XH/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YOGNT2XWPOYV7YT75DN7PS4GIYWFKOK5/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sec.stealthcopter.com/cve-2020-28243/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202103-01Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-22Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5011Third Party Advisory

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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T03:10:14.120",
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