Tarball permission preservation in puppet

Also known as GHSA-vw22-465p-8j5w

Published 8 y ago 2018-02-09 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

5.5

v3.0 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

0.4%

percentile 29%

Public exploits

none known

In previous versions of Puppet Agent it was possible to install a module with world writable permissions. Puppet Agent 5.3.4 and 1.10.10 included a fix to this vulnerability.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.36% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 29% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.0	5.5	`CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N`
NVD	2.0	2.1	`AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N`
GitHub	3.0	5.5	`CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N`

Affected packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
rubygems	`puppet`	<4.10.10 >=5.0.0, <5.3.4	4.10.10 5.3.4

Affected products

Puppet Puppet Enterprise
Puppet Puppet Agent

Classification

Weakness

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

usn.ubuntu.com /3567-1/ · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU, x_transferred
puppet.com /security/cve/CVE-2017-10689 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
access.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2018:2927 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT, x_transferred
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2017-10689 · advisory
github.com /puppetlabs/puppet/commit/17d9e02da3882e44c1876e2805cf9708481715ee · web
github.com /puppetlabs/puppet/commit/2f1047f85e22cde139a421bc25d371f2ffc92cb1 · web
github.com /puppetlabs/puppet · package
github.com /rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/puppet/CVE-2017-10689.yml · web
tickets.puppetlabs.com /browse/PUP-7866 · web
usn.ubuntu.com /3567-1 · web

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2017-10689
GitHub Advisory: GHSA-vw22-465p-8j5w
NVD: CVE-2017-10689

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Summary