CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-3251

4.4 MEDIUM Published 2014-08-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2014-08-12
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-362

Description

The MCollective aes_security plugin, as used in Puppet Enterprise before 3.3.0 and Mcollective before 2.5.3, does not properly validate new server certificates based on the CA certificate, which allows local users to establish unauthorized Mcollective connections via unspecified vectors related to a race condition.

Affected configurations

• puppet puppet enterprise (<= 3.2.0) • puppetlabs mcollective

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References