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Insecure Permissions Affecting puppet package, versions <5.3.4

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.05% (22nd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-PUPPET-22015
  • published 12 Feb 2018
  • disclosed 9 Feb 2018
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 9 Feb 2018

CVE-2017-10689 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-277 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade puppet to version 5.3.4 or higher.

Overview

puppet is an automated administrative engine for your Linux, Unix, and Windows systems, performs administrative tasks based on a centralized specification.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insecure Permissions. It was possible to install a module with world writable permissions.

CVSS Scores

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Snyk

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