CVE-2023-20897

published 2023-09-05

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…

Priority P4 24 medium 5.3 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C N I N A L

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

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
saltstack	salt	< 3005.2	3005.2
saltstack	salt	—	—
saltstack	salt	>= 0 < 3005.2	3005.2
saltstack	salt	>= 3006.0 < 3006.2	3006.2
saltstack	salt	>= 3006.0 < 3006.2	3006.2
saltstack	salt	>= 3006.0rc1 < 3006.2	3006.2

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