{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-2298 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2017-2298 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2017-2298 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Puppet mcollective, published on 30 Jun 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2017-2298 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2017-2298 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Puppet mcollective, published on 30 Jun 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-2298 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Puppet mcollective. 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-2017-2298/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-2298/index.md)","id":"CVE-2017-2298","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-2298/index.md","name":"CVE-2017-2298","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-3wcp-fjfh-pw9r"],"analysis":{"component_type":"server_software","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["data_modify"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Puppet mcollective plugin","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A compromised server can write files to arbitrary locations on the client via path traversal in the mcollective-sshkey-security plugin.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"puppet","cpe":[{"product":"mcollective-sshkey-security","vendor":"puppet"}],"cvss":{"score":6.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-20","name":"Improper Input Validation"}],"description":"The mcollective-sshkey-security plugin before 0.5.1 for Puppet uses a server-specified identifier as part of a path where a file is written. A compromised server could use this to write a file to an arbitrary location on the client with the filename appended with the string \"_pub.pem\".","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":false,"headline":"Path traversal in mcollective","id":"CVE-2017-2298","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2017"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"Misconfiguration in puppetlabs-apache","id":"CVE-2017-2299"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Auth bypass in Puppet Enterprise","id":"CVE-2017-2297"},"products":["mcollective"],"published":"2017-06-30","related":[],"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":"2024-09-16","vendors":["Puppet"]},"summary":"A compromised server can write files to arbitrary locations on the client via path traversal in the mcollective-sshkey-security plugin.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-2298/"}