PT-2025-5996 · Puppet · Puppet Agent

Published 2025-02-07 · Updated 2025-02-08 · CVE-2021-27017

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.6

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Puppet Agent versions prior to 7.4.0

Description The issue arises from the utilization of a module that presents a security risk by allowing the deserialization of untrusted or user-supplied data.

Recommendations For Puppet Agent versions prior to 7.4.0, update to version 7.4.0 to resolve the issue.

Fix

Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-502

Related Identifiers

CVE-2021-27017

Affected Products

Puppet Agent

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-27017 · Security Note
• https://twitter.com/WolfgangSesin/status/1888167979398918165 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1887948480938643507 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvedetector/17519 · Telegram Post
• https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2021-27017-deserialization-untrusted-data · Note