Is CVE-2020-28243 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2020-28243 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2020-28243?

CVE-2020-28243 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2020-28243?

CVE-2020-28243 has an EPSS score of 4.30% (90th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2020-28243?

Upgrade salt on ubuntu 16.04 to 2015.8.8+ds-1ubuntu0.1+esm2 or later. Fixes are available for 2 affected products.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2020-28243

HIGHEPSS 90th pctl

7.8

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

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.

CWE-77Command Injection

How to fix

Remediation Available

saltUbuntu

Fixed in:2015.8.8+ds-1ubuntu0.1+esm2USN-6948-1

Fixed in:2017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.2+esm1USN-6948-1

salt-commonUbuntu

Fixed in:2015.8.8+ds-1ubuntu0.1+esm2USN-6948-1

Fixed in:2017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.2+esm1USN-6948-1

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorLocal

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredLow

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

4.30%probability of exploitation in 30 days

90thpercentile

Elevated risk: more likely to be exploited than 90% of all known CVEs.

References

Exploit2

Vendor Advisory1

saltproject.io

Third-Party Advisory8

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-77 (Command Injection) vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2024-3400	Critical	10.0	100%	KEV + Ransom	-
CVE-2024-21887	Critical	9.1	100%	KEV + Ransom	-
CVE-2023-1671	Critical	9.8	100%	KEV	Fix
CVE-2023-1389	High	8.8	100%	KEV	Fix
CVE-2021-1498	Critical	9.8	100%	KEV	Fix
CVE-2012-1823	Critical	9.8	100%	KEV	Fix

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2024-11-21.