Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Puppet Agent - CVE-2011-0528
Published: February 17, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42027
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2011-0528
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote #AU# to read and manipulate data.
Puppet 2.6.0 through 2.6.3 does not properly restrict access to node resources, which allows remote authenticated Puppet nodes to read or modify the resources of other nodes via unspecified vectors.
Affected software
Puppet Agent
Ubuntu
puppet-common (Ubuntu package)
Ubuntu
puppet-common (Ubuntu package)
How to mitigate CVE-2011-0528
Install update from vendor's website.
puppet-common (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 2.6.1-0ubuntu2.5, 2.6.4-2ubuntu2.7, 2.7.1-1ubuntu3.4