
CVE catalog
CVE-2023-20898
UBUNTU-CVE-2023-20898
- Severity
- Medium · CVSS 4.2
CVSS: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.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suse | venv-salt-minion | manager client tools for rhel, liberty and clones 9-client-tools | 3006.0-1.24.1 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 2016.11.5+ds-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 2016.11.8+dfsg1-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 2017.7.2+dfsg1-2ubuntu1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 2017.7.3+dfsg1-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 2017.7.4+dfsg1-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 2017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 2017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | pro | 2017.7.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu18.04.2+esm1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | 22.04 | 3002.6+dfsg1-4 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | 22.04 | 3002.7+dfsg1-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | 22.04 | 3004+dfsg1-4 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | 22.04 | 3004+dfsg1-5 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | 22.04 | 3004+dfsg1-6ubuntu1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | 22.04 | 3004+dfsg1-7 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | 22.04 | 3004+dfsg1-8 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | salt | 22.04 | 3004.1+dfsg-2 | vulnerable |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suse | venv-salt-minion | rpm | manager client tools for rhel, liberty and clones 9-client-tools | 3006.0-1.24.1 | Not reported | SUSE-EL-9-CLIENT-TOOLS-2023-3884 | Not reported |
OpenFactory catalog packages
Matching against OpenFactory catalog package versions is in progress.