CVE-2023-20897 MEDIUM

CVE-2023-20897

Vendor N/A
Product Salt
Published September 5, 2023
Last update February 13, 2025

CVSS base score

5.3/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

September 5, 2023 CVE published
February 13, 2025 Record updated