Deserialization of Untrusted Data The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package mcollective  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU1810-MCOLLECTIVE-657832
  • published30 Jun 2017
  • disclosed30 Jun 2017

Introduced: 30 Jun 2017

CVE-2017-2292  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-502  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.10.

NVD Description

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

Versions of MCollective prior to 2.10.4 deserialized YAML from agents without calling safe_load, allowing the potential for arbitrary code execution on the server. The fix for this is to call YAML.safe_load on input. This has been tested in all Puppet-supplied MCollective plugins, but there is a chance that third-party plugins could rely on this insecure behavior.