Salt vulnerable to denial of service
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.
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describes (1)
Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2023-20897US | medium5.3 | — | ||
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 w… | ||||
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references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/salt/PYSEC-2023-166.yamlWEB
- https://github.com/saltstack/saltPACKAGE
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OMWJIHQZXHK6FH2E3IWAZCYIRI7FLVOLWEB
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-20897ADVISORY
- https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2023-08-10-advisoryWEB
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