CVE-2017-2293 Missing authorization in Puppet Enterprise

What is CVE-2017-2293?

CVE-2017-2293 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Puppet Puppet Enterprise, published on 1 Feb 2018. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Versions of Puppet Enterprise prior to 2016.4.5 or 2017.2.1 shipped with an MCollective configuration that allowed the package plugin to install or remove arbitrary packages on all managed agents. This release adds default configuration to not allow these actions. Customers who rely on this functionality can change this policy.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-2293?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Puppet Puppet Enterprise.

How do I fix CVE-2017-2293?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-2293 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2017-2293 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-2293 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-wg8j-wm67-mv7w.