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CVE-2018-11746 Details

Description

In Puppet Discovery prior to 1.2.0, when running Discovery against Windows hosts, WinRM connections can fall back to using basic auth over insecure channels if a HTTPS server is not available. This can expose the login credentials being used by Puppet Discovery.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd0e44e8ef71eeaaa3cf3d1b8b41eb25894372e2995ec908ce7624d26%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E CVE
https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11746 CVEVendor Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd0e44e8ef71eeaaa3cf3d1b8b41eb25894372e2995ec908ce7624d26%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E [email protected]
https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11746 [email protected]Vendor Advisory

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-522Insufficiently Protected Credentials[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
puppet discovery
< 1.2.0

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:puppet:discovery:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

8 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2018-11746
NVD Published Date:
Jul 3, 2018
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]