Bug 1933350 (CVE-2020-28243)

Summary:	CVE-2020-28243 salt: Privilege escalation on a minion when an unprivileged user is able to create files in any non-blacklisted directory
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	amctagga, anharris, bniver, brycel, david-dm.murphy, flucifre, frederic.pierret, gmeno, hvyas, kp, mbenjamin, mhackett, sostapov, vereddy
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in Salt. A privilege escalation is possible on a SaltStack minion when an unprivileged user can create files in any non-blacklisted directory via command injection in a process name. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1933351
Bug Blocks:	1933352

Description Pedro Sampaio 2021-02-26 19:05:07 UTC

A privilege escalation is possible on a SaltStack minion when an unprivileged user is able to create files in any non-blacklisted directory via a command injection in a process name.

References:

https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-2021-feb-25/

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2021-02-26 19:05:53 UTC

Created salt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1933351]

Comment 4 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-03-02 19:02:09 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-28243

Comment 5 RaTasha Tillery-Smith 2021-03-03 13:37:24 UTC

Statement:

Salt has been deprecated as of Red Hat Ceph Storage 2.5, as Salt was used to install RHSCON-2 and RHSCON-2 has reached End Of Life.