Cyber Resilience

CVE-2020-28243

HighPublic PoC

Published: 27 February 2021

Published
27 February 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0141 80.9th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2020-28243 is a high-severity Command Injection (CWE-77) vulnerability in Saltstack Salt. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 19.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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…

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in a non-blacklisted directory.

CWE(s)
CWE-77

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

saltstack
salt
≤ 2015.8.10 · 2015.8.11 — 2015.8.13 · 2016.3.0 — 2016.3.4
fedoraproject
fedora
32, 33, 34
debian
debian linux
10.0, 11.0, 9.0

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References