CVE-2017-2298

Medium

Description

The mcollective-sshkey-security plugin before 0.5.1 for Puppet uses a server-specified identifier as part of a path where a file is written. A compromised server could use this to write a file to an arbitrary location on the client with the filename appended with the string "_pub.pem".

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.5
Exploit probability—
ProductPuppet Mcollective-sshkey-security
PublishedJun 30, 2017
First seenJun 30, 2017

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
puppet mcollective-sshkey-securityv ≤ 0.5.0—

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