CVE-2020-28243

CVSS V2 Medium 4.4 CVSS V3 High 7.8
Description
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2020-28243
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2021-02-27T05:15:13
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2022-02-22T14:20:29
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-77 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/77.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2015.8.10
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2015.8.11 2015.8.13
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2016.3.0 2016.3.4
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2016.3.5 2016.3.6
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2016.3.7 2016.3.8
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2016.3.9 2016.11.3
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2016.11.4 2016.11.5
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2016.11.7 2016.11.10
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2017.5.0 2017.7.8
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2018.2.0 2018.3.5
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2019.2.0 2019.2.5
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2019.2.6 2019.2.8
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 3000 3000.6
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 3001 3001.4
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 3002 3002.5
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 4.4
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.4
  • Impact Score
  • 6.4
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.8
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/ Vendor Advisory
https://sec.stealthcopter.com/cve-2020-28243/ Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/stealthcopter/CVE-2020-28243 Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YOGNT2XWPOYV7YT75DN7PS4GIYWFKOK5/ Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7GRVZ5WAEI3XFN2BDTL6DDXFS5HYSDVB/ Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FUGLOJ6NXLCIFRD2JTXBYQEMAEF2B6XH/ Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202103-01 Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00009.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5011 Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00000.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28243
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-28243
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 06:32:00 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-05 22:55:42 2021-02-27T05:15Z 2021-02-27T05:15:13 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-05 22:55:42 2022-02-22T14:20:29 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-05 22:55:42 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated