PT-2018-7108 · Puppet · Puppet Enterprise

Published 2018-02-01 · Updated 2022-01-24 · CVE-2017-2296

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Puppet Enterprise versions 2017.1.x through 2017.2.1

Description: The issue arises when specially formatted strings containing certain formatting characters are used as Classifier node group names or RBAC role display names, causing errors and effectively leading to a denial of service (DOS) to the service.

Recommendations: For Puppet Enterprise versions 2017.1.x through 2017.2.1, update to version 2017.2.2 to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-2296

Affected Products

Puppet Enterprise

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-2296 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-2296 · Vendor Advisory
• https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2296 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cvenotify/25772 · Telegram Post