CVE-2017-2296

published 2018-02-01

CVE-2017-2296: In Puppet Enterprise 2017.1.x and 2017.2.1, using specially formatted strings with certain formatting characters as Classifier node group names or RBAC role…

Priority P4 27 medium 6.5 CVSS 3.0

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

In Puppet Enterprise 2017.1.x and 2017.2.1, using specially formatted strings with certain formatting characters as Classifier node group names or RBAC role display names causes errors, effectively causing a DOS to the service. This was resolved in Puppet Enterprise 2017.2.2.

Affected

5 ranges

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

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 6.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd v2.0 4.0 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

vendor_debian 6.5 LOW

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