{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3251 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2014-3251 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Puppet Puppet Enterprise, published on 12 Aug 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2014-3251 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2014-3251 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Puppet Puppet Enterprise, published on 12 Aug 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3251 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Puppet Puppet Enterprise. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-3251/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-3251/index.md)","id":"CVE-2014-3251","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-3251/index.md","name":"CVE-2014-3251","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3251","GHSA-q495-m6p3-c645"],"analysis":{"component_type":"server_software","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["security_bypass"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"MCollective security plugin","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Local attackers can exploit a race condition in the MCollective aes_security plugin to bypass certificate validation and establish unauthorized connections.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"race_condition"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"puppet_enterprise","vendor":"puppet"},{"product":"mcollective","vendor":"puppetlabs"}],"cvss":{"score":4.4,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-362","name":"Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization"}],"description":"The MCollective aes_security plugin, as used in Puppet Enterprise before 3.3.0 and Mcollective before 2.5.3, does not properly validate new server certificates based on the CA certificate, which allows local users to establish unauthorized Mcollective connections via unspecified vectors related to a race condition.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Race condition in n/a","id":"CVE-2014-3251","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"puppet:puppet_enterprise","products":["puppet:puppet_enterprise"],"type":"race_condition","year":"2014"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"Weak cryptography in n/a","id":"CVE-2014-3260"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Security feature bypass in n/a","id":"CVE-2014-3250"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2014-08-12","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Privilege escalation in Puppet Enterprise","id":"CVE-2023-2530","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-06-07"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Hardcoded credentials in Puppet Enterprise","id":"CVE-2019-10694","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-12-11"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Information disclosure in Puppet Enterprise","id":"CVE-2018-11749","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-08-24"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Other in Puppet Enterprise","id":"CVE-2021-27020","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-08-30"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Cross-site request forgery in n/a","id":"CVE-2015-5686","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-02-27"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Code injection in Puppet Enterprise","id":"CVE-2016-5716","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-08-09"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Security feature bypass in n/a","id":"CVE-2015-7330","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2016-04-11"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-06","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Local attackers can exploit a race condition in the MCollective aes_security plugin to bypass certificate validation and establish unauthorized connections.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-3251/"}