{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2020-28243","details":"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.","modified":"2026-04-02T18:29:07.793725Z","published":"2021-02-27T05:15:00Z","related":["USN-6948-1"],"upstream":["CVE-2020-28243"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-28243"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-28243"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6948-1"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"salt","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/salt@2017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.2+esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/bionic"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.2+esm1"}]}],"versions":["2016.11.5+ds-1","2016.11.8+dfsg1-1","2017.7.2+dfsg1-2ubuntu1","2017.7.3+dfsg1-1","2017.7.4+dfsg1-1","2017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.1","2017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.2"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"2017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.2+esm1","binary_name":"salt-api"},{"binary_version":"2017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.2+esm1","binary_name":"salt-cloud"},{"binary_version":"2017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.2+esm1","binary_name":"salt-common"},{"binary_version":"2017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.2+esm1","binary_name":"salt-master"},{"binary_version":"2017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.2+esm1","binary_name":"salt-minion"},{"binary_version":"2017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.2+esm1","binary_name":"salt-proxy"},{"binary_version":"2017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.2+esm1","binary_name":"salt-ssh"},{"binary_version":"2017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.2+esm1","binary_name":"salt-syndic"}],"availability":"Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2020/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-28243.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}