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Salt vulnerable to denial of service

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Sep 5, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 5, 2023

Package

pip salt (pip)

Affected versions

< 3005.2
>= 3006.0rc1, < 3006.2

Patched versions

3005.2
3006.2

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 5, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 5, 2023
Reviewed Sep 6, 2023
Last updated Nov 5, 2023

Severity

Moderate
5.3
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-20897

GHSA ID

GHSA-vpjg-wmf8-29h9

Source code

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