CVE-2017-2293

published 2018-02-01

CVE-2017-2293: Versions of Puppet Enterprise prior to 2016.4.5 or 2017.2.1 shipped with an MCollective configuration that allowed the package plugin to install or remove…

Priority P4 26 medium 4.9 CVSS 3.0

AV N AC L PR H UI N S U C N I H A N

Versions of Puppet Enterprise prior to 2016.4.5 or 2017.2.1 shipped with an MCollective configuration that allowed the package plugin to install or remove arbitrary packages on all managed agents. This release adds default configuration to not allow these actions. Customers who rely on this functionality can change this policy.

Affected

7 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	puppet	—	—
puppet	puppet_enterprise	< 2016.4.5	2016.4.5
puppet	puppet_enterprise	—	—
puppet	puppet_enterprise	—	—
puppet	puppet_enterprise	—	—
puppet	puppet_enterprise	—	—
puppet	puppet_enterprise	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 4.9 MEDIUM CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

nvd v2.0 5.5 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

vendor_debian 4.9 LOW

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