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.
CVSS v4.0 Metrics
Exploitability
Attack VectorLocal
ComplexityLow
RequirementsPresent
PrivilegesLow
User InteractionNone
Threat
Exploit MaturityPoC
Vulnerable System
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh
Subsequent System
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityNone
Supplemental
SafetyNegligible
AutomatableYes
RecoveryAutomatic
Value DensityConcentrated
UrgencyMedium
Change Log
| Date | Source | Changes | Score |
|---|
| 2026-07-21 | PoC | E: U→P | 4.4 → 6.4 |
| 2026-07-21 | nvd | AV: P→L, AC: H→L, PR: H→L, UI: A→N, VC: N→H, VI: N→H, VA: N→H | 0.0 → 4.4 |
| 2026-07-21 | cve.org | initial, patch: Unavailable | 0.0 |
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Version |
|---|
| debian | debian_linux | 10.0 |
| debian | debian_linux | 11.0 |
| debian | debian_linux | 9.0 |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 32 |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 33 |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 34 |
| saltstack | salt | ≥ 2019.2.6, < 2019.2.8 |
| saltstack | salt | ≥ 2015.8.11, < 2015.8.13 |
| saltstack | salt | ≥ 3000, < 3000.6 |
| saltstack | salt | ≥ 2016.3.0, < 2016.3.4 |
| saltstack | salt | ≥ 3001, < 3001.4 |
| saltstack | salt | ≥ 2016.3.5, < 2016.3.6 |
| saltstack | salt | ≥ 3002, < 3002.5 |
| saltstack | salt | ≥ 2016.3.7, < 2016.3.8 |
| saltstack | salt | ≥ 2016.11.7, < 2016.11.10 |
| saltstack | salt | ≥ 2018.2.0, ≤ 2018.3.5 |
| saltstack | salt | ≥ 2019.2.0, < 2019.2.5 |
| saltstack | salt | ≥ 2016.3.9, < 2016.11.3 |
| saltstack | salt | ≥ 2016.11.4, < 2016.11.5 |
| saltstack | salt | < 2015.8.10 |
| saltstack | salt | ≥ 2017.5.0, < 2017.7.8 |
Published: 2021-02-27
