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CVE-2023-20897

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.3 Published: 2023-09-05 Modified: 2026-06-17

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.

Affected Platforms

Saltstack Salt

Weakness Type

CWE-404

References