Puppet Enterprise 2021.7.1 / 2023.0 DoS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 184140

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Synopsis

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

Description

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) issue was discovered in Puppet Server 7.9.2 certificate validation. An issue related to specifically crafted certificate names significantly slowed down server operations.

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 2021.7.3, 2023.1, or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 184140

File Name: puppet_enterprise_CVE-2023-1894.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 11/1/2023

Updated: 11/2/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-1894

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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: 5/2/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/2/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-1894

Detections

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