CVE-2023-20897

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-404 Improper Resource Shutdown or Release

Publication date:

05/09/2023

Last modified:

13/02/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.30 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Low

Base Score 3.x

5.30

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt::::::::		3005.2 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt::::::::	3006.0 (including)	3006.2 (excluding)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2023-20897

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools