CVE-2013-4965 Auth bypass in n/a

What is CVE-2013-4965?

CVE-2013-4965 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Puppet Puppet Enterprise, published on 25 Oct 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Puppet Enterprise before 3.1.0 does not properly restrict the number of authentication attempts by a console account, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a brute-force attack.

Weakness: CWE-287

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-4965?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Puppet Puppet Enterprise.

How do I fix CVE-2013-4965?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-4965 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.

Is CVE-2013-4965 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4965 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-8p9x-4g9j-2649.