CVE-2020-28243
salt - security update
7.8
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.4%
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.
How to fix CVE-2020-28243
To remediate CVE-2020-28243, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/salt—upgrade to 2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u7 or later
- —upgrade to 2015.8.13 or later
- —upgrade to 2015.8.10 or later
Is CVE-2020-28243 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.4%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- from 0, < 2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u7
- from 0, < 2015.8.13
- from 0, < 2015.8.10, >= 2015.8.11, < 2015.8.13, >= 2016.3.0, < 2016.3.4, >= 2016.3.5, < 2016.3.6, >= 2016.3.7, < 2016.3.8, >= 2016.11.0, < 2016.11.3, >= 2016.11.4, < 2016.11.5, >= 2016.11.7, < 2016.11.10, >= 2017.7.0, < 2017.7.8, >= 2018.3.0rc1, < 2019.2.0rc1, >= 2019.2.0, < 2019.2.5, >= 2019.2.6, < 2019.2.8, >= 3000, < 3000.6, >= 3001, < 3001.4, >= 3002, < 3002.5
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |