CVE-2017-2298
medium
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.5
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".
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
75%
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.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| puppet | mcollective-sshkey-security | {"endIncluding":"0.5.0"} | |
References
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/mcollective-sshkey-security/blob/0.5.1/CHANGELOG.md
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/mcollective-sshkey-security/commit/3388a3109f4fb1c69fa8505e991bf59ca20d19a2
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2298
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/mcollective-sshkey-security/blob/0.5.1/CHANGELOG.md
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/mcollective-sshkey-security/commit/3388a3109f4fb1c69fa8505e991bf59ca20d19a2
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2298
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.