Minion privilege escalation exploit patched in SaltStack Salt project

The Salt Project has patched a privilege escalation bug impacting SaltStack Salt minions that could be used during a wider exploit chain. The vulnerability, CVE-2020-28243, is described as a privilege escalation bug impacting SaltStack Salt minions allowing “an unprivileged user to create files in any non-blacklisted directory via a command injection in a process name.”

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