CVE-2023-20897
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
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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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-20897
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2023-166.yaml
- https://github.com/saltstack/salt
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OMWJIHQZXHK6FH2E3IWAZCYIRI7FLVOL
- https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2023-08-10-advisory
- https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2023-08-10-advisory/
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-20897.html
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.