Salt prior 3005.2/3006.2 Minion denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in Salt. This affects an unknown part of the component Minion. Executing a manipulation can lead to denial of service. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-20897. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Salt. This vulnerability affects an unknown functionality of the component Minion. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was shared 09/05/2023 by The Master. The advisory is available at saltproject.io. This vulnerability was named CVE-2023-20897 since 11/01/2022. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 260715 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-20897), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 3005.2 or 3006.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (260715). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.2

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 260715
Nessus Name: Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-20897

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Salt 3005.2/3006.2

Timelineinfo

11/01/2022 🔍
09/05/2023 +307 days 🔍
09/05/2023 +0 days 🔍
09/03/2025 +729 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: FEDORA-2023-ac1aa963e4
Researcher: The Master
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2023-20897 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2023-20897
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-238834

Entryinfo

Created: 09/05/2023 14:10
Updated: 09/03/2025 18:36
Changes: 09/05/2023 14:10 (49), 10/01/2023 08:52 (1), 09/03/2025 18:36 (17)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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