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Salt vulnerable to denial of service

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Sep 5, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 13, 2025

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 Feb 13, 2025

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(30th percentile)

Weaknesses

Improper Resource Shutdown or Release

The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2023-20897

GHSA ID

GHSA-vpjg-wmf8-29h9

Source code

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