VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-28243

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability4.30%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-02-27
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS: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.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-77

Primary references