CVE-2017-2290

CVSS V2 High 9 CVSS V3 High 8.8
Description
On Windows installations of the mcollective-puppet-agent plugin, version 1.12.0, a non-administrator user can create an executable that will be executed with administrator privileges on the next "mco puppet" run. Puppet Enterprise users are not affected. This is resolved in mcollective-puppet-agent 1.12.1.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2017-2290
  • Assigner
  • security@puppet.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2017-03-03T15:59:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2021-09-09T12:57:34
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-732 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/732.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
AND
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:mcollective-puppet-agent:1.12.0:*:*:*:*:puppet:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 0 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • SINGLE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Integrity Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 9
  • Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8
  • Impact Score
  • 10
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 8.8
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2.8
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2290 Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96583 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-2290
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-2290
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 16:06:32 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 14:22:50 2017-03-03T15:59Z 2017-03-03T15:59:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 14:22:50 2021-09-09T12:57:34 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 14:22:50 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated