CVE-2023-20897

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CVSS 3.1

5.3 medium

EPSS

1%p67

Published

Sep 5, 2023 (Sep 5, 2023)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Vendors: saltstack
Products: salt
Weakness: CWE-404
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.2%)

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