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

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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 data, which can lead to wrongful data disclosure, wrongful executions, data     corruption and/or crash. (CVE-2023-20898)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - 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 data, which can lead to wrongful data disclosure, wrongful executions, data
    corruption and/or crash. (CVE-2023-20898)

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202412-09 (Salt: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Salt. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below     for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to its self-reported version number, the instance of SaltStack hosted on the remote server is affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

  - 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. (CVE-2023-20897)

  - Git Providers can read from the wrong environment because they get the same cache directory base name.
    (CVE-2023-20898)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3863-1 advisory.

    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)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3865-1 advisory.

    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)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3862-1 advisory.

    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)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3866-1 advisory.

    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)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3864-1 advisory.

    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)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-ac1aa963e4 advisory.

    Fixes for CVE-2023-20897 and CVE-2023-20898

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
260972	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-20898	Nessus	Misc.	Local	high
418334	SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-qvh6-3j7x-3hq7)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
418334	SCA: security update for salt (GHSA-qvh6-3j7x-3hq7)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
212187	GLSA-202412-09 : Salt: Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	Local	high
182689	SaltStack 3000 < 3002.8 / 3003 < 3003.4 / 3004 < 3004.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Misc.	Local	high
182178	SUSE SLED15: python3-salt / salt / salt-api / salt-bash-completion / salt-cloud / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:3863-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	high
182177	SUSE SLES15: python3-salt / salt / salt-api / salt-bash-completion / salt-cloud / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:3865-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	high
182176	SUSE SLED15: python3-salt / salt / salt-api / salt-bash-completion / salt-cloud / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:3862-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	high
182174	SUSE SLES15: python3-salt / salt / salt-api / salt-bash-completion / salt-cloud / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:3866-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	high
182173	SUSE SLES15: python3-salt / salt / salt-api / salt-bash-completion / salt-cloud / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:3864-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	high
181399	Fedora 37 : salt (2023-ac1aa963e4)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	high

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