CVE catalog

CVE-2023-20898

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-20898

[CVE catalog]

Severity
Medium · CVSS 4.2CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Published
Updated
Source
[NVD] · [CVE record]
EPSS
0.32% · Oct 25, 2026

This update fixes the following issues: venv-salt-minion: - Security issues fixed: * CVE-2023-20897: Do not fail on bad message pack message (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: * Revert usage of long running REQ channel to prevent possible missing responses on requests and duplicated responses (bsc#1213960, bsc#1213630, bsc#1213257) * Create minion_id with reproducible mtime * Do not recompile SELinux policy module on building. Use precompiled module instead to avoid incompatibility errors. * 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) * Ship SELinux policy module version 19 to make it compatible with broader list of Linux distributions

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.

DistributionPackageReleaseVersionStatus
Susevenv-salt-minionmanager client tools for rhel, liberty and clones 9-client-tools3006.0-1.24.1fixed
Ubuntusaltpro2016.11.5+ds-1vulnerable
Ubuntusaltpro2016.11.8+dfsg1-1vulnerable
Ubuntusaltpro2017.7.2+dfsg1-2ubuntu1vulnerable
Ubuntusaltpro2017.7.3+dfsg1-1vulnerable
Ubuntusaltpro2017.7.4+dfsg1-1vulnerable
Ubuntusaltpro2017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.1vulnerable
Ubuntusaltpro2017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.2vulnerable
Ubuntusaltpro2017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.2+esm1vulnerable
Ubuntusalt22.043002.6+dfsg1-4vulnerable
Ubuntusalt22.043002.7+dfsg1-1vulnerable
Ubuntusalt22.043004+dfsg1-4vulnerable
Ubuntusalt22.043004+dfsg1-5vulnerable
Ubuntusalt22.043004+dfsg1-6ubuntu1vulnerable
Ubuntusalt22.043004+dfsg1-7vulnerable
Ubuntusalt22.043004+dfsg1-8vulnerable
Ubuntusalt22.043004.1+dfsg-2vulnerable

Fixed-version evidence

DistributionPackageTypeReleaseFixed versionUrgencyOriginBugs
Susevenv-salt-minionrpmmanager client tools for rhel, liberty and clones 9-client-tools3006.0-1.24.1Not reportedSUSE-EL-9-CLIENT-TOOLS-2023-3884Not reported

OpenFactory catalog packages

Matching against OpenFactory catalog package versions is in progress.

References