CVE-2017-2298

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 Medium 6.5
Description
The mcollective-sshkey-security plugin before 0.5.1 for Puppet uses a server-specified identifier as part of a path where a file is written. A compromised server could use this to write a file to an arbitrary location on the client with the filename appended with the string "_pub.pem".
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2017-2298
  • Assigner
  • security@puppet.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2017-06-30T20:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2021-09-09T12:57:00
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-20 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:mcollective-sshkey-security:*:*:*:*:*:puppet:*:* 1 OR 0.5.0
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 4.3
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • REQUIRED
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 6.5
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2.8
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2298 Mitigation Patch Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/puppetlabs/mcollective-sshkey-security/commit/3388a3109f4fb1c69fa8505e991bf59ca20d19a2 Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/puppetlabs/mcollective-sshkey-security/blob/0.5.1/CHANGELOG.md Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-2298
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-2298
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 16:06:32 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 18:13:13 2017-06-30T20:29Z 2017-06-30T20:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 18:13:13 2021-09-09T12:57:00 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 18:13:13 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated