CVE-2020-28243

mediumpriority · track · 43EPSS 0.043 · 91 %ileexploit · PoCDEEURUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · PoC

Likely / severe?

4.30% (91st) EPSS

CVSS 4.4 · medium

Is it mine?

74 products

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Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 4.4–7.8

v2.04.4mediumAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.4 · impact 6.4

v3.17.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 5.9

v3.17.8highAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.17.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.17.4highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Psecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-77USprimaryCWE-77USCWE-77USCWE-78US

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

stealthcopter/CVE-2020-28243CVE-2020-28243 Local Privledge Escalation Exploit in SaltStack MinionPoC · poc_in_github

affected products (74)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Debian Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:-
Gentoo Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:gentoo:linux:-
Open Source Arch Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:archlinux:archlinux:-
SUSE Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:-
SaltStack Saltall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:saltstack:salt:-
Ubuntu Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:-
n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
Fedora Project Fedora≤ 33fstec_bduRU
Fedora Project Fedora≤ 34fstec_bduRU
Fedora Project Fedora≤ 32fstec_bduRU
SaltStack, Inc Salt≤ 2015.8.10fstec_bduRU
SaltStack, Inc Salt2015.8.11 → 2015.8.13fstec_bduRU
SaltStack, Inc Salt2016.11.4 → 2016.11.5fstec_bduRU
SaltStack, Inc Salt2016.11.7 → 2016.11.10fstec_bduRU
SaltStack, Inc Salt2016.3.0 → 2015.3.4fstec_bduRU
SaltStack, Inc Salt2016.3.5 → 2016.3.6fstec_bduRU
SaltStack, Inc Salt2016.3.7 → 2016.3.8fstec_bduRU
SaltStack, Inc Salt2016.3.9 → 2016.11.3fstec_bduRU
SaltStack, Inc Salt2017.5.0 → 2017.7.8fstec_bduRU
SaltStack, Inc Salt2018.2.0 → 2018.3.5fstec_bduRU

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advisories (3)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2023-2845SaltStack Salt: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2021-02-28csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in SaltStack Salt ausnutzen, um beliebigen Programmcode auszuführen.
GHSA-phhw-3wc9-8q75SaltStack Salt command injection via a crafted process name2022-05-24ghsa · osvUS
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.
PYSEC-2021-732021-02-27vendor · osvUS
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.

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu osv cert_bund NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2021-02-27modified 2026-06-17

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references (46)

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