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CVE-2023-20897

MEDIUM
5.3CVSS
Published: 2023-09-05
Updated: 2025-02-13
AI Analysis

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.

CVSS Metrics

Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector
network
Complexity
low
Privileges
none
User Action
none
Scope
unchanged
Confidentiality
none
Integrity
none
Availability
low
Weaknesses
CWE-404

Metadata

Primary Vendor
SALTSTACK
Published
9/5/2023
Last Modified
2/13/2025
Source
NIST NVD
Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.

Affected Products

saltstack : saltsaltstack : salt

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