Executive Summary

Summary
Title Puppet Agent: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201710-12 First vendor Publication 2017-10-13
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2017-10-13
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 8 Authentication Requires single instance
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Puppet Agent, the worst of which could result in the execution of arbitrary code.

Background

Puppet Agent contains Puppet’s main code and all of the dependencies needed to run it, including Facter, Hiera, and bundled versions of Ruby and OpenSSL.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Puppet Agent. Please review the references for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or obtain sensitive information.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Puppet Agent users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/puppet-agent-1.7.1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2016-5714 : https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-5714
[ 2 ] Puppet Security Advise Oct 2016
https://puppet.com/security/cve/pxp-agent-oct-2016

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-12

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201710-12.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-284 Access Control (Authorization) Issues

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 8
Application 5

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-10-16 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201710-12.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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2017-11-08 21:26:07
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2017-10-19 00:24:57
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2017-10-17 13:25:15
  • Multiple Updates
2017-10-14 05:21:30
  • First insertion