What is CVE-2017-2294?

CVE-2017-2294 is a high-severity vulnerability in Puppet Enterprise, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-07-05.

How severe is CVE-2017-2294?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Puppet Enterprise

CVE-2017-2294

Versions of Puppet Enterprise prior to 2016.4.5 or 2017.2.1 failed to mark MCollective server private keys as sensitive (a feature added in Puppet 4.6), so key values could be logged and stored in PuppetDB. These releases use the sensitive data type to ensure this won't happen anymore.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published 2017-07-05 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.012 (66.8th percentile), scored 2026-10-20.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 67th percentile — 66.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.012 · newest: 0.012 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Puppet Enterprise — versions PE prior to 2016.4.5 or 2017.2.1
Puppet Enterprise — versions 2016.5.1, 2016.5.2, 2017.1.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2294 (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-2294?: CVE-2017-2294 is a high-severity vulnerability in Puppet Enterprise, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-07-05.
How severe is CVE-2017-2294?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.