PyPi: Salt

CVE-2020-28243

Safety vulnerability ID: 41929

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The information on this page was manually curated by our Cybersecurity Intelligence Team.

Created at Feb 27, 2021 Updated at Jul 30, 2024
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Advisory

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. Several Salt versions were patched.
https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25

Affected package

salt

Latest version: 3007.1

Portable, distributed, remote execution and configuration management system

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

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Fixed
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- CVE-2020-28243 - Fix local privilege escalation in the restartcheck module. (CVE-2020-28243)
- CVE-2020-28972 - Ensure authentication to vcenter, vsphere, and esxi server
validates the SSL/TLS certificate by default. If you want to skip SSL verification
you can use `verify_ssl: False`. (CVE-2020-28972)
- CVE-2020-35662 - Ensure the asam runner, qingcloud, splunk returner, panos
proxy, cimc proxy, zenoss module, esxi module, vsphere module, glassfish
module, bigip module, and keystone module validate SSL by default. If you want
to skip SSL verification you can use `verify_ssl: False`. (CVE-2020-35662)
- CVE-2021-25281 - Fix salt-api so it honors eauth credentials for the
wheel_async client. (CVE-2021-25281)
- CVE-2021-25282 - Fix the salt.wheel.pillar_roots.write method so it is not
vulnerable to directory traversal. (CVE-2021-25282)
- CVE-2021-25283 - Fix the jinja render to protect against server side template
injection attacks. (CVE-2021-25283)
- CVE-2021-25284 - Fix cmdmod so it will not log credentials to log levels info
and error. (CVE-2021-25284)
- CVE-2021-3144 - Fix eauth tokens can be used once after expiration. (CVE-2021-3144)
- CVE-2021-3148 - Fix a command injection in the Salt-API when using the Salt-SSH client. (CVE-2021-3148)
- CVE-2021-3197 - Fix ssh client to remove ProxyCommand from arguments provided
by cli and netapi. (CVE-2021-3197)

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Severity Details

CVSS Base Score

HIGH 7.8

CVSS v3 Details

HIGH 7.8
Attack Vector (AV)
LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC)
LOW
Privileges Required (PR)
LOW
User Interaction (UI)
NONE
Scope (S)
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact (C)
HIGH
Integrity Impact (I)
HIGH
Availability Availability (A)
HIGH

CVSS v2 Details

MEDIUM 4.4
Access Vector (AV)
LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC)
MEDIUM
Authentication (Au)
NONE
Confidentiality Impact (C)
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact (I)
PARTIAL
Availability Impact (A)
PARTIAL