CVE-2021-27023
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
A flaw was discovered in Puppet Agent and Puppet Server that may result in a leak of HTTP credentials when following HTTP redirects to a different host. This is similar to CVE-2018-1000007
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
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.
OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 4 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 0 |
| sid | Fixed | 0 |
| bullseye | Affected | — |
| bookworm | Fixed | 0 |
Arch Fixed 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Fixed | 7.12.1-1 |
References
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-27023
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-27023.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-27023
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/puppet/CVE-2021-27023.yml
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/62SELE7EKVKZL4GABFMVYMIIUZ7FPEF7
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-27023
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.