CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-2298
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-06-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
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".
Affected configurations
• puppet mcollective-sshkey-security (<= 0.5.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/mcollective-sshkey-security/blob/0.5.1/CHANGELOG.md Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/mcollective-sshkey-security/commit/3388a3109f4fb1c69fa8505e991bf59ca20d19a2 Third Party Advisory
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2298 Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/mcollective-sshkey-security/blob/0.5.1/CHANGELOG.md Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/mcollective-sshkey-security/commit/3388a3109f4fb1c69fa8505e991bf59ca20d19a2 Third Party Advisory
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2298 Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory