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CVE-2020-28243

HIGH · CVSS 7.8 EPSS 4.30% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2021-02-27 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

AI analysis pending.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

GitHub PoC Links
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CVE
CVE-2020-28243
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
4.30%

Original 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.