Information Exposure Affecting puppet package, versions >=2.6.0, <2.6.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.17% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-PUPPET-20301
  • published 28 Feb 2017
  • disclosed 1 Dec 2010
  • credit Puppet Labs

How to fix?

Upgrade puppet to version 2.6.8 or higher.

Overview

puppet is an automated configuration management tool. Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Information Disclosure when missing an auth.conf file in /etc/puppet. This attack may be possible only for an attacker with SSL credentials from another node.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
5.4 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

5.4 medium