Unauthorized Endpoint Access Affecting puppet package, versions >=4.0.0, <4.4.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.62% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-PUPPET-20331
  • published 28 Feb 2017
  • disclosed 26 Apr 2016
  • credit Puppet Labs

How to fix?

Upgrade puppet to version 4.4.2 or higher.

Overview

puppet is an automated configuration management tool. Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Unauthorized Endpoint Access due to not decoding correctly specific character combinations. Malicious users could potentially access endpoints otherwise restricted by auth.conf rules.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

9.8 critical
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Red Hat

5.3 medium