Information Exposure 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
    0.07% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-PUPPET-22016
  • published 12 Feb 2018
  • disclosed 9 Feb 2018
  • credit Unknown

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 Information Exposure. It was possible for the agent to retrieve facts from an environment that it was not classified to retrieve from.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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