Auth bypass in Puppet Enterprise

CVE-2013-4965

Puppet Enterprise before 3.1.0 does not properly restrict the number of authentication attempts by a console account, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a brute-force attack.

Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication

EPSS: 0.013 (67.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Puppet Puppet_enterprise — versions 3.0.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-287 — Improper Authentication

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)