Information Exposure Affecting salt package, versions [,3005.2)[3006.0rc1,3006.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-SALT-5885033
  • published7 Sept 2023
  • disclosed5 Sept 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Sep 2023

CVE-2023-20898  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade salt to version 3005.2, 3006.2 or higher.

Overview

salt is a new approach to infrastructure management built on a dynamic communication bus. Salt can be used for data-driven orchestration, remote execution for any infrastructure, configuration management for any app stack, and much more.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure and other possible impacts, due to a hash collision when using Git Providers reading from different environments. If Git Providers read from the wrong environment because they get the same cache directory base name, they could get bad data or unintended data. This could also lead to wrongful executions, data corruption or a crash.

CVSS Scores

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