USN-4804-1

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    USN-4804-1

    Published: 15 Mar 2021Last Modified: 25 Jun 2026

    Summary: puppet vulnerabilities

    Details: It was discovered that Puppet installed modules with world writable permissions. An attacker could use this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-10689) It was discovered that Puppet could be used to force YAML deserialization in an unsafe manner. A remote attacker could use this vulnerability for remote code execution. (CVE-2017-2295)

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4804-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-2295, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-10689

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: puppet

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/puppet?arch=source&distro=esm-apps%2Fxenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.8.5-2ubuntu0.1+esm1

    Affected versions

    3.7.2-5ubuntu2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High