Auth bypass in Puppet Enterprise

CVE-2013-4966

The master external node classification script in Puppet Enterprise before 3.2.0 does not verify the identity of consoles, which allows remote attackers to create arbitrary classifications on the master by spoofing a console.

Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication

EPSS: 0.011 (62.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Puppet Puppet_enterprise — versions 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.1.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-287 — Improper Authentication

References

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