Race Condition The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package mcollective  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-MCOLLECTIVE-631519
  • published12 Aug 2014
  • disclosed12 Aug 2014

Introduced: 12 Aug 2014

CVE-2014-3251  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mcollective package and not the mcollective package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The MCollective aes_security plugin, as used in Puppet Enterprise before 3.3.0 and Mcollective before 2.5.3, does not properly validate new server certificates based on the CA certificate, which allows local users to establish unauthorized Mcollective connections via unspecified vectors related to a race condition.