CVE-2023-20897

mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.012 · 69 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.24% (69th) EPSS

CVSS 5.3 · medium

Is it mine?

14 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.15.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Lprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 1.4

v3.15.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Lsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.15.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Lsecondary · security@vmware.comexploitability 3.9 · impact 1.4

v3.15.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Lsecondary · OSV

v3.14.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical Impact: partialcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-404USprimaryCWE-404US

affected products (14)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Gentoo Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:gentoo:linux:-
SUSE Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:-
SUSE Manager <4.3.8all versionscert_bundDE
SaltStack Salt <3005.2all versionscert_bundDE
SaltStack Salt <3006.2all versionscert_bundDE
SUSE Manager< 4.3.8cert_bundDE
SaltStack Salt< 3005.2cert_bundDE
SaltStack Salt< 3006.2cert_bundDE
n/a Salt≤ Salt masters prior to 3005.2 or 3006.2enisa_euvdEU
saltstack salt< 3005.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt3006.0 → 3006.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
PyPI salt< 3005.2osvUSpkg:pypi/salt
PyPI salt3006.0 → 3006.2osvUSpkg:pypi/salt
PyPI salt3006.0rc1 → 3006.2osvUSpkg:pypi/salt

advisories (3)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2023-2274SaltStack Salt: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2023-09-05csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in SaltStack Salt ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen.
GHSA-vpjg-wmf8-29h9Salt vulnerable to denial of service2023-09-05ghsa · osvUS
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.
PYSEC-2023-1662023-09-05vendor · osvUS
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.

also known as (6)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv cert_bund nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2023-09-05modified 2026-06-17

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references (7)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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