CVE-2023-20897
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 unresp...
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Description
Salt vulnerable to denial of service
CVSS Vector Breakdown
Exploitability
AV:NAttack VectorNetwork
AC:LAttack ComplexityLow
PR:NPrivileges RequiredNone
UI:NUser InteractionNone
Scope
S:UScopeUnchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentialityNone
I:NIntegrityNone
A:LAvailabilityLow
Weaknesses
Affected Products
Exploitability
Official Patch Available
References
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-20897
nvd.nist.gov
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2023-166.yaml
github.com
https://github.com/saltstack/salt
github.com
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Timeline
Published
Sep 5, 2023
Last Updated
Feb 13, 2025
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