CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-11749

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2018-08-24 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-08-24
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
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-319

Description

When users are configured to use startTLS with RBAC LDAP, at login time, the user's credentials are sent via plaintext to the LDAP server. This affects Puppet Enterprise 2018.1.3, 2017.3.9, and 2016.4.14, and is fixed in Puppet Enterprise 2018.1.4, 2017.3.10, and 2016.4.15. It scored an 8.5 CVSS score.

Affected configurations

• puppet puppet enterprise (<= 2016.4.14) • puppet puppet enterprise (>= 2017.3.0 <= 2017.3.9) • puppet puppet enterprise (>= 2018.1.0 <= 2018.1.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information weakness

References