CVE-2023-20897

SaltStack CVE-2023-20897 affects Salt masters prior to 3005.2 or 3006.2, which suffer a DOS in minion return: after receiving several bad packets equal to the worker-thread count, the master becomes unresponsive to return requests until restart. Remediation: upgrade to at least 3005.2/3006.2 or n...

CVE-2023-20898

CVE-2023-20898 affects SaltStack Salt masters prior to 3005.2 or 3006.2. The issue arises when Git Providers with different environments read from the same cache directory base name, allowing garbage or incorrect data to be read, which can lead to data disclosure, wrongful executions, data corrup...

CVE-2024-38824

CVE-2024-38824 is a directory traversal vulnerability in the recv_file method that allows writing arbitrary files into the Salt master cache directory. Public references in multiple advisories (SUSE openSUSE/SUSE-SU-2025-02501/-02492/-02476, SUSE-2025-02492, -02500, -02502) confirm the flaw affec...