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SaltStack Salt command injection via a crafted process name

GHSA ID
GHSA-phhw-3wc9-8q75
CVE ID
CVE-2020-28243
Severity
high
Published
Updated
CVSS
7.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v3
7.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

CWEs

  • CWE-77 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')
  • CWE-78 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

References

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