Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting salt package, versions <2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-SALT-1080551
  • published27 Feb 2021
  • disclosed27 Feb 2021

Introduced: 27 Feb 2021

CVE-2020-28243  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-77  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 salt to version 2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream salt package and not the salt package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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