CVE-2020-8028: Improper Access Control

September 17, 2020 (updated September 28, 2020)

A Improper Access Control vulnerability in the configuration of salt of SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for SUSE Manager Server, SUSE Manager Proxy, SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server, SUSE Manager Server, SUSE Manager Server allows local users to escalate to root on every system managed by SUSE manager. On the managing node itself code can be executed as user salt, potentially allowing for escalation to root there. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for SUSE Manager Server google-gson, httpcomponents-client, httpcomponents, SUSE Manager Proxy release-notes-susemanager-proxy, SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server release-notes-susemanager-proxy, SUSE Manager Server salt-netapi-client, spacewalk, SUSE Manager Server release-notes-susemanager.

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