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CVE-2023-20897 (GCVE-0-2023-20897)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-05 10:56 – Updated: 2025-02-13 16:40
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-30 17:24 UTC
CWE
  • DOS in minion return.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a Salt Affected: Salt masters prior to 3005.2 or 3006.2
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