MEDIUM 5.3

PYSEC-2023-166

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.

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Affected packages

PyPI / salt

Introduced in: 3006.0 Fixed in: 3006.2

Fix pip install --upgrade 'salt>=3005.2'

References

https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2023-08-10-advisory/ [ADVISORY]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vpjg-wmf8-29h9 [ADVISORY]