{"answers":{"affected":"5 open source packages ship an affected version, including salt. It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-20897 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade salt to a fixed version for your release line: 3005.2 or 3006.2.","what":"CVE-2023-20897 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Saltstack Salt, published on 5 Sep 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-20897 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-20897 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Saltstack Salt, published on 5 Sep 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-20897 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- salt (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 3005.2\n- salt (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 3005.2\n- salt (PyPI): affected from 3006.0; fixed in 3006.2, 3005.2\n- salt (PyPI): affected from 3006.0rc1; fixed in 3006.2\n- salt (PyPI): affected from 3006.0rc1; fixed in 3006.2\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-20897/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-20897/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-20897","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-20897/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-20897","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-vpjg-wmf8-29h9","PYSEC-2023-166","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-20897"],"analysis":{"component_type":"server_software","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Salt master","requires_auth":"none","summary":"An attacker can cause the Salt master to become unresponsive by sending multiple bad packets, requiring a restart to recover.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"vmware","cpe":[{"product":"salt","vendor":"saltstack"}],"cvss":{"score":5.3,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-404","name":"Improper Resource Shutdown or Release"}],"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.","ecosystems":["PyPI"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Salt vulnerable to denial of service","id":"CVE-2023-20897","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"PyPI","product":"saltstack:salt","products":["saltstack:salt"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2023"},"n_packages":5,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Salt can cause Git Providers to get wrong data","id":"CVE-2023-20898"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["3005.2"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"salt","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-vpjg-wmf8-29h9"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["3005.2"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"salt","purl":"pkg:pypi/salt","source":"GHSA-vpjg-wmf8-29h9"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["3006.2","3005.2"],"introduced":["3006.0","0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"salt","purl":"pkg:pypi/salt","source":"PYSEC-2023-166"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["3006.2"],"introduced":["3006.0rc1"],"last_affected":[],"package":"salt","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-vpjg-wmf8-29h9"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["3006.2"],"introduced":["3006.0rc1"],"last_affected":[],"package":"salt","purl":"pkg:pypi/salt","source":"GHSA-vpjg-wmf8-29h9"}],"prev":{"headline":"Denial of service in VMware Cloud Foundation (vCenter Server)","id":"CVE-2023-20896"},"products":["Salt"],"published":"2023-09-05","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"SaltStack insecurely uses /tmp","id":"CVE-2013-4437","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2013-11-05"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"SaltStack Privilege Escalation vulnerability","id":"CVE-2013-6617","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2013-11-05"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Code injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2021-33226","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-02-17"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"salt-api unauthenticated remote code execution","id":"CVE-2021-25315","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-03-03"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"SaltStack Salt Remote command execution and incorrect access control when using salt-api","id":"CVE-2018-15751","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-10-24"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"SaltStack Salt allows compromised salt-minions to impersonate the salt-master","id":"CVE-2017-7893","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-04-23"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"SaltStack Salt Directory traversal vulnerability in minion id validation","id":"CVE-2017-14695","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-10-24"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"GitHub Advisory Database","prefix":"GHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"PyPA Advisory Database","prefix":"PYSEC"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"yes","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-02-13","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"An attacker can cause the Salt master to become unresponsive by sending multiple bad packets, requiring a restart to recover.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-20897/"}