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 unresponsive to return requests until restarted.

CVSS v3 5.3 MEDIUM

5.3^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 1.4

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact LOW

Scope UNCHANGED

References

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

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt::::::::

History

14 Sep 2023, 03:15

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References		(MISC) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OMWJIHQZXHK6FH2E3IWAZCYIRI7FLVOL/ -

07 Sep 2023, 19:40

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPE		cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt::::::::
References	~~(MISC) https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2023-08-10-advisory/ -~~	(MISC) https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2023-08-10-advisory/ - Vendor Advisory
CWE		CWE-404
First Time		Saltstack salt Saltstack
CVSS	v2 : ~~unknown~~ v3 : ~~unknown~~	v2 : unknown v3 : 5.3

05 Sep 2023, 12:54

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2023-09-05 11:15

Updated : 2023-12-10 15:14

NVD link : CVE-2023-20897

Mitre link : CVE-2023-20897

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2023-20897

JSON object : View

Products Affected

saltstack

salt

CWE

CWE-404

Improper Resource Shutdown or Release

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