Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package puppet  (opens in a new tab)


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0.76% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-PUPPET-605591
  • published19 Aug 2020
  • disclosed24 Aug 2018

Introduced: 24 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-11749  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-319  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:11.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream puppet package and not the puppet package as distributed by Debian.

When users are configured to use startTLS with RBAC LDAP, at login time, the user's credentials are sent via plaintext to the LDAP server. This affects Puppet Enterprise 2018.1.3, 2017.3.9, and 2016.4.14, and is fixed in Puppet Enterprise 2018.1.4, 2017.3.10, and 2016.4.15. It scored an 8.5 CVSS score.