PT-2017-11440 · Puppet+2 · Puppet Agent+2

Published 2017-12-31 · Updated 2022-05-13 · CVE-2017-10689

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Puppet Agent versions prior to 5.3.4 Puppet Agent versions prior to 1.10.10

Description The issue concerns the installation of modules with world-writable permissions in previous versions of Puppet Agent. When using minitar to install a module, files are unpacked with the permissions specified in the tarball, which can be potentially unsafe if the tarball contains unusual permissions. The system tar, on the other hand, filters filesystem permissions to a sane value based on the user's umask.

Recommendations For versions prior to 5.3.4, update to version 5.3.4 or later to resolve the issue. For versions prior to 1.10.10, update to version 1.10.10 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Improper Privilege Management

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-269

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-10689

GHSA-VW22-465P-8J5W

MGASA-2018-0199

RHSA-2018:2927

SUSE-SU-2018:0571-1

SUSE-SU-2018:0602-1

SUSE-SU-2018_0571-1

SUSE-SU-2018_0602-1

USN-3567-1

USN-4804-1

Affected Products

Puppet Agent

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 30

• 🔥 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/puppet/CVE-2017-10689.yml · Exploit
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-10689 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-vw22-465p-8j5w · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:0571-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-10689 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-10689 · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3567-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-2295 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:0602-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10689 · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3567-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-10689 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-10689 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3567-1 · Vendor Advisory