CVE-2023-20897

State: Published
Severity: 5.3 Medium
Published: Sep 5, 2023
Updated: Feb 13, 2025
Reserved: Nov 1, 2022

Description

Salt masters prior to 3005.2 or 3006.2 contain a DOS in minion return. After receiving several bad packets on the request server equal to the number of worker threads, the master will become unresponsive to return requests until restarted.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	vmware

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Saltn/a	Salt masters prior to 3005.2 or 3006.2Affected

References

https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2023-08-10-advisory/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OMWJIHQZXHK6FH2E3IWAZCYIRI7FLVOL/

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