Executive Summary

Summary
Title Puppet Server and Agent: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201606-02 First vendor Publication 2016-06-05
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2016-06-05
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:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Puppet Server and Agent, the worst of which could lead to arbitrary code execution.

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 Server and Agent. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

Remote attackers, impersonating a trusted broker, could potentially execute arbitrary code.

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-1.4.2"

All puppetserver users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/puppetserver-2.3.2"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2016-2785 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-2785
[ 2 ] CVE-2016-2786 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-2786

Availability

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

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-02

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201606-02.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-284 Access Control (Authorization) Issues
50 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 14
Application 6
Application 2
Application 7

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-06-06 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201606-02.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2016-06-14 21:38:00
  • Multiple Updates
2016-06-10 21:38:23
  • Multiple Updates
2016-06-08 13:25:04
  • Multiple Updates
2016-06-05 21:26:44
  • First insertion