CVE-2013-4958

medium

Published 2013-08-20 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.9

Description

Puppet Enterprise before 3.0.1 does not use a session timeout, which makes it easier for attackers to gain privileges by leveraging an unattended workstation.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
bullseye	Fixed	`0`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`{"endIncluding":"3.0.0"}`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`2.5.1`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`2.5.2`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`2.8.0`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`2.8.1`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`2.8.2`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`2.8.3`

References

CWEs

CWE-287

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.