Bug 1933350 (CVE-2020-28243) - CVE-2020-28243 salt: Privilege escalation on a minion when an unprivileged user is able to create files in any non-blacklisted directory
Summary: CVE-2020-28243 salt: Privilege escalation on a minion when an unprivileged us...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2020-28243
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1933351
Blocks: 1933352
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Reported: 2021-02-26 19:05 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2021-03-03 13:37 UTC (History)
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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.
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Last Closed: 2021-03-02 19:02:09 UTC
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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.

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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.
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