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CVE-2017-2293 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:4.9 MEDIUMVector:CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2293 CVEVendor Advisory
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2293 [email protected]Vendor Advisory

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
NVD-CWE-noinfoInsufficient Information to Classify Weakness[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
puppet puppet enterprise
< 2016.4.5
2016.5.1
2016.5.2
2017.1.0
2017.1.1

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:2016.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:2016.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:2017.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:2017.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

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QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2017-2293
NVD Published Date:
Feb 1, 2018
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]