CVE-2023-20897

Name
CVE-2023-20897
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.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

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

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* salt >= 3006.0 < 3006.2
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* salt >= None < 3005.2

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
salt 3.18-community 3006.1-r0 Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable