saltstack/salt · Security
Salt vulnerable to denial of service
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-vpjg-wmf8-29h9
- CVE ID
- CVE-2023-20897
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 5.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CVSS v3
- 5.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
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.
CWEs
- CWE-404 · Improper Resource Shutdown or Release
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://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/OMWJIHQZXHK6FH2E3IWAZCYIRI7FLVOL ↗
- https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2023-08-10-advisory ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vpjg-wmf8-29h9 ↗