medium5.3
CVE-2023-20897
Salt vulnerable to denial of service
Impact
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.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| pip | salt | < 3005.2 | 3005.2 |
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Saltstack | Salt | before 3005.2 from 3006.0 before 3006.2 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- GitHub advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OMWJIHQZXHK6FH2E3IWAZCYIRI7FLVOL/
- https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2023-08-10-advisory/
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vpjg-wmf8-29h9
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-20897
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2023-166.yaml
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OMWJIHQZXHK6FH2E3IWAZCYIRI7FLVOL
- https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2023-08-10-advisory