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CVE-2020-28243 High

CVE-2020-28243

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.

Exploit probability 4.3%
Published February 27, 2021
Required by Not available
Last source change June 10, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

Unknown Unknown

95 explicit affected versions

PyPI salt

159 explicit affected versions

PyPI salt

168 explicit affected versions

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities CVE-2020-28243

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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Open Source Vulnerabilities PYSEC-2021-73

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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Open Source Vulnerabilities GHSA-phhw-3wc9-8q75

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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05 / REFERENCES

Further evidence