CVE-2013-4966 Auth bypass in n/a

What is CVE-2013-4966?

CVE-2013-4966 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Puppet Puppet Enterprise, published on 7 Mar 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The master external node classification script in Puppet Enterprise before 3.2.0 does not verify the identity of consoles, which allows remote attackers to create arbitrary classifications on the master by spoofing a console.

Weakness: CWE-287

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-4966?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Puppet Puppet Enterprise.

How do I fix CVE-2013-4966?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-4966 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-2013-4966 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4966 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-r6x2-cpwm-cr43.