Improper Privilege Management Affecting puppet package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-PUPPET-364887
  • published9 Feb 2018
  • disclosed9 Feb 2018

Introduced: 9 Feb 2018

CVE-2017-10689  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:8 puppet.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream puppet package and not the puppet package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

In previous versions of Puppet Agent it was possible to install a module with world writable permissions. Puppet Agent 5.3.4 and 1.10.10 included a fix to this vulnerability.