| Name | CVE-2023-20897 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1051504 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| salt (PTS) | buster, buster (security) | 2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u3 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 3002.6+dfsg1-4+deb11u1 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| salt | source | buster | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| salt | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | 1051504 |
Notes
[buster] - salt <end-of-life> (EOL in buster LTS)
https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2023-08-10-advisory/
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/64061