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PYSEC-2021-73

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.

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Affected packages

PyPI / salt

Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 2015.8.10

Fix pip install --upgrade 'salt>=2015.8.10'

References

https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/ [WEB]
https://sec.stealthcopter.com/cve-2020-28243/ [WEB]
https://github.com/stealthcopter/CVE-2020-28243 [WEB]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YOGNT2XWPOYV7YT75DN7PS4GIYWFKOK5/ [WEB]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7GRVZ5WAEI3XFN2BDTL6DDXFS5HYSDVB/ [WEB]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FUGLOJ6NXLCIFRD2JTXBYQEMAEF2B6XH/ [WEB]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202103-01 [ADVISORY]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-phhw-3wc9-8q75 [ADVISORY]