{"id":"CVE-2023-20897","aliases":["GHSA-vpjg-wmf8-29h9","PYSEC-2023-166"],"url":"https://o3.security/vulnerability/CVE-2023-20897","summary":"Salt vulnerable to denial of service","details":"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.","published":"2023-09-05T10:56:33.183Z","modified":"2026-07-24T18:29:51.715074494Z","cvss":{"score":5.3,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L"},"epss":null,"cisaKev":null,"exploitsKnown":0,"affectedPackages":[{"ecosystem":"PyPI","name":"salt","fixedVersion":"3005.2"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","name":"salt","fixedVersion":"3006.2"}],"fix":null,"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OMWJIHQZXHK6FH2E3IWAZCYIRI7FLVOL/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/20xxx/CVE-2023-20897.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-20897"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2023-08-10-advisory/"}],"provenance":{"sources":["OSV.dev","FIRST.org (EPSS)"],"lastVerified":"2026-07-24T18:29:51.715074494Z"}}