Puppet Enterprise < 2019.8.8 / 2021.x < 2021.3 PostgreSQL Vulnerability

medium Nessus Plugin ID 184136

Synopsis

An instance of Puppet Enterprise installed on the remote system is affected by a PostgreSQL vulnerability.

Description

For more information about this vulnerability, refer to the security announcements for CVE-2021-3677

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Puppet Enterprise version 2019.8.8, 2021.3 or later.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?2d86f6c0

https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2021-3677/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 184136

File Name: puppet_enterprise_CVE-2021-3677.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 11/1/2023

Updated: 11/2/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3677

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:puppetlabs:puppet_enterprise

Required KB Items: installed_sw/puppet_enterprise_console

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/2/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/2/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3677