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CVE-2023-20897 Moderate

CVE-2023-20897

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.

Exploit probability 1.0%
Published September 5, 2023
Required by Not available
Last source change June 10, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

Unknown Unknown

60 explicit affected versions

PyPI salt

213 explicit affected versions

PyPI salt

216 explicit affected versions

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities CVE-2023-20897

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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Open Source Vulnerabilities PYSEC-2023-166

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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Open Source Vulnerabilities GHSA-vpjg-wmf8-29h9

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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05 / REFERENCES

Further evidence