Local Privilege Escalation Affecting salt package, versions [3002rc1,3002.5)[3001rc1,3001.6)[,3000.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-SALT-1080594
  • published27 Feb 2021
  • disclosed27 Feb 2021
  • creditMatthew Rollings

Introduced: 27 Feb 2021

CVE-2020-28243  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-61  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade salt to version 3002.5, 3001.6, 3000.8 or higher.

Overview

salt is a new approach to infrastructure management built on a dynamic communication bus. Salt can be used for data-driven orchestration, remote execution for any infrastructure, configuration management for any app stack, and much more.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Local Privilege Escalation. A privilege escalation is possible on a SaltStack minion when an unprivileged user is able to create files in any non-blacklisted directory via a command injection in a process name.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1