Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-20898

Medium

Published: 05 September 2023

Published
05 September 2023
Modified
13 February 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 4.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0011 29.0th percentile
Risk Priority 8 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-20898 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Saltstack Salt. Its CVSS base score is 4.2 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 29.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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…

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data, which can lead to wrongful data disclosure, wrongful executions, data corruption and/or crash.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

saltstack
salt
≤ 3005.2 · 3006.0 — 3006.2

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References