Security advisory

{
  "id": "4db201b13d25dc835b30bd13e3444ab7a11e7dcb329af084495831fed04c80e1",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-20898",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2023-20898",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2023-20898",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2023-20898",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2023-20898",
        "GHSA-qvh6-3j7x-3hq7",
        "PYSEC-2023-169"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/saltstack/salt",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "c71ff9204ab5ae90b21b68cf3447be472a8db8f2"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "86bb64dde27281d545ef46e1a42471a90c494197"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "8f750fa7ae115c48c16ca03ef3f16e4ba76f921c"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "3005.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "3006.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "3006.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v3006.1",
            "v3006.0",
            "v3005.1-4",
            "v3005.1-3",
            "v3005.1-2",
            "v3005.1",
            "v3005",
            "v3005rc2",
            "v3005rc1",
            "v3003rc1",
            "v3002.2",
            "v3002",
            "v3002rc1",
            "v3001.1",
            "v3001",
            "v3001rc1",
            "v3000.1",
            "v3000_docs",
            "v3000",
            "v3000.0rc1",
            "v3000.0rc2",
            "v2019.2.1",
            "v2019.2.1rc1",
            "v2019.2",
            "v2018.11",
            "v2017.7",
            "v2017.5",
            "v2018.3",
            "v2018.2",
            "v2016.9",
            "v2016.11",
            "v2016.3",
            "v2015.8",
            "v2015.5",
            "v2015.2",
            "v2014.7",
            "v2014.1",
            "v0.17",
            "v0.16",
            "v0.15.0",
            "v0.14.0",
            "v0.13.0",
            "v0.12.0",
            "v0.11.0",
            "v0.10.5",
            "v0.10.4",
            "v0.10.3",
            "v0.10.2",
            "v0.10.1",
            "v0.10.0",
            "v0.9.9",
            "v0.9.3",
            "v0.9.2",
            "v0.9.1",
            "v0.9.0",
            "v0.8.9",
            "v0.8.7",
            "v0.8.0",
            "v0.7.0",
            "v0.6.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-20898.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:25.008428982Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OMWJIHQZXHK6FH2E3IWAZCYIRI7FLVOL/",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/20xxx/CVE-2023-20898.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-20898",
        "https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2023-08-10-advisory/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cna_assigner": "vmware",
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "fixed": "3005.2"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
                "strategy": "VersionTextExtraction"
              }
            ]
          }
        ],
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/20xxx/CVE-2023-20898.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2023-20898",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 491657,
  "published_at": "2023-09-05T10:59:10.439+00:00"
}