🛡️ SUSE-SU-2023:3862-1 — salt (CVE-2023-20897 +1 more)

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

Security update for salt

This update for salt fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

  • CVE-2023-20897: Fixed DOS in minion return. (bsc#1214796, bsc#1213441)
  • CVE-2023-20898: Fixed Git Providers can read from the wrong environment because they get the same cache directory base

name. (bsc#1214797, bsc#1193948)

Bugs fixed:

  • Create minion_id with reproducible mtime
  • Fix broken tests to make them running in the testsuite
  • Fix detection of Salt codename by 'salt_version' execution module
  • Fix inconsistency in reported version by egg-info metadata (bsc#1215489)
  • Fix regression: multiple values for keyword argument 'saltenv' (bsc#1212844)
  • Fix the regression of user.present state when group is unset (bsc#1212855)
  • Fix utf8 handling in 'pass' renderer and make it more robust
  • Fix zypper repositories always being reconfigured
  • Make sure configured user is properly set by Salt (bsc#1210994)
  • Prevent possible exceptions on salt.utils.user.get_group_dict (bsc#1212794)
  • Revert usage of long running REQ channel to prevent possible missing responses on requests and duplicated responses

(bsc#1213960, bsc#1213630, bsc#1213257)

Affected software

SUSE-SU-2023:3862-1 is recorded against 1 package.

  • salt (fixed in 3006.0-150500.4.19.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 28 September 2023 and last revised on 4 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2023-09-28
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-02-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
salt 3006.0-150500.4.19.1

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