CVE-2017-2293

Medium

Description

Versions of Puppet Enterprise prior to 2016.4.5 or 2017.2.1 shipped with an MCollective configuration that allowed the package plugin to install or remove arbitrary packages on all managed agents. This release adds default configuration to not allow these actions. Customers who rely on this functionality can change this policy.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.9
Exploit probability—
ProductPuppet Enterprise
PublishedFeb 1, 2018
First seenFeb 1, 2018

How to fix

Update
  • puppet puppet_enterprise2016.4.5 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
puppet puppet_enterprisev < 2016.4.5, 2016.5.1, 2016.5.2, 2017.1.0, 2017.1.12016.4.5

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