CVE-2023-20898

Publication date 5 September 2023

Last updated 1 April 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
salt	26.04 LTS resolute	Not in release
	25.10 questing	Not in release
	25.04 plucky	Not in release
	24.10 oracular	Not in release
	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	23.10 mantic	Not in release
	23.04 lunar	Not in release
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of standard support
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
salt	Upstream: 6120bca

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 4.2 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality impact	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	4.2 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N