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Vulnerability details: VCID-nehw-r7zm-j7bb
Vulnerability ID VCID-nehw-r7zm-j7bb
Aliases CVE-2023-20897
GHSA-vpjg-wmf8-29h9
PYSEC-2023-166
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.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-404 Improper Resource Shutdown or Release
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 5.3 https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2023-08-10-advisory/
Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2023-166.yaml
https://github.com/saltstack/salt
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OMWJIHQZXHK6FH2E3IWAZCYIRI7FLVOL
https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2023-08-10-advisory
https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2023-08-10-advisory/
CVE-2023-20897 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-20897
GHSA-vpjg-wmf8-29h9 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vpjg-wmf8-29h9
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2023-08-10-advisory/
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No EPSS data available for this vulnerability.

Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-02T04:19:29.810446+00:00 Pypa Importer Import https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2023-166.yaml 38.6.0