CVE-2020-28243
CVSS v3
7.8
HIGH
EPSS Score
4.3 %
exploit probability, as of 2026-10-19
CISA KEV
No
known exploited
Exploitation
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SSVC status
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Packages
- saltPyPIall versions · fixed in 2015.8.10
Vendor advisories
salt: Privilege escalation on a minion when an unprivileged user is able to create files in any non-blacklisted directory
salt as a component of Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 · salt-minion as a component of Red Hat Ceph Storage 2
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.
Technical details
- Published
- 2021-02-27
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