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.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202412-09 (Salt: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Salt. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below     for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to its self-reported version number, the instance of SaltStack hosted on the remote server is affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

  - 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. (CVE-2023-20897)

  - Git Providers can read from the wrong environment because they get the same cache directory base name.
    (CVE-2023-20898)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3863-1 advisory.

  - 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. (CVE-2023-20897)

  - 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. (CVE-2023-20898)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3865-1 advisory.

  - 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. (CVE-2023-20897)

  - 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. (CVE-2023-20898)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3862-1 advisory.

  - 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. (CVE-2023-20897)

  - 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. (CVE-2023-20898)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3866-1 advisory.

  - 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. (CVE-2023-20897)

  - 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. (CVE-2023-20898)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3864-1 advisory.

  - 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. (CVE-2023-20897)

  - 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. (CVE-2023-20898)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-ac1aa963e4 advisory.

    Fixes for CVE-2023-20897 and CVE-2023-20898

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
212187	GLSA-202412-09 : Salt: Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
182689	SaltStack 3000 < 3002.8 / 3003 < 3003.4 / 3004 < 3004.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Misc.	high
182178	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : salt (SUSE-SU-2023:3863-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
182177	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : salt (SUSE-SU-2023:3865-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
182176	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : salt (SUSE-SU-2023:3862-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
182174	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : salt (SUSE-SU-2023:3866-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
182173	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : salt (SUSE-SU-2023:3864-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
181399	Fedora 37 : salt (2023-ac1aa963e4)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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