CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-2290

8.8 HIGH Published 2017-03-03 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-03-03
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-732

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.

Affected configurations

• puppet mcollective-puppet-agent 1.12.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness

References