CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-11746

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2018-07-03 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-07-03
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.6 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-522

Description

In Puppet Discovery prior to 1.2.0, when running Discovery against Windows hosts, WinRM connections can fall back to using basic auth over insecure channels if a HTTPS server is not available. This can expose the login credentials being used by Puppet Discovery.

Affected configurations

• puppet discovery (< 1.2.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials weakness

References