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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-28243: Salt: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-28243: Salt: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/27/2021
Created
04/01/2021
Added
04/01/2021
Modified
11/01/2023

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-admin-salt

References

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