{"answers":{"affected":"5 open source packages ship an affected version, including salt. It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-20898 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-2023-20898 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Saltstack Salt, published on 5 Sep 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-20898 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-20898 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Saltstack Salt, published on 5 Sep 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-20898 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-2023-20898/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-20898/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-20898","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-20898/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-20898","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-qvh6-3j7x-3hq7","PYSEC-2023-169","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-20898"],"analysis":{"component_type":"server_software","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["data_read","data_modify"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Salt configuration management","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Git Providers in Salt masters may read from the wrong environment due to cache directory collisions, leading to data disclosure or corruption.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"information_disclosure"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"vmware","cpe":[{"product":"salt","vendor":"saltstack"}],"cvss":{"score":4.2,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"Git Providers can read from the wrong environment because they get the same cache directory base name in Salt masters prior to 3005.2 or 3006.2. Anything that uses Git Providers with different environments can get garbage data or the wrong data, which can lead to wrongful data disclosure, wrongful executions, data corruption and/or crash.","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 can cause Git Providers to get wrong data","id":"CVE-2023-20898","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"PyPI","product":"saltstack:salt","products":["saltstack:salt"],"type":"information_disclosure","year":"2023"},"n_packages":5,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Missing authorization in VMware SD-WAN (Edge)","id":"CVE-2023-20899"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["3005.2"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"salt","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-qvh6-3j7x-3hq7"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["3005.2"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"salt","purl":"pkg:pypi/salt","source":"GHSA-qvh6-3j7x-3hq7"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["3006.2","3005.2"],"introduced":["3006.0","0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"salt","purl":"pkg:pypi/salt","source":"PYSEC-2023-169"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["3006.2"],"introduced":["3006.0rc1"],"last_affected":[],"package":"salt","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-qvh6-3j7x-3hq7"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["3006.2"],"introduced":["3006.0rc1"],"last_affected":[],"package":"salt","purl":"pkg:pypi/salt","source":"GHSA-qvh6-3j7x-3hq7"}],"prev":{"headline":"Salt vulnerable to denial of service","id":"CVE-2023-20897"},"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":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-02-13","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Git Providers in Salt masters may read from the wrong environment due to cache directory collisions, leading to data disclosure or corruption.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-20898/"}