Puppet Agent 5.x < 5.5.22 / 6.x < 6.19.0 Vulnerability

high Nessus Plugin ID 184141

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Synopsis

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

Description

On August 19, 2020, curl published security updates addressing CVE-2020-8231. Previous releases of Puppet Agent contain a vulnerable version of curl. For more information about this vulnerability, refer to the security announcement for CVE-2020-8231.

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 Agent version 5.5.22, 6.19.0, or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 184141

File Name: puppet_agent_CVE-2020-8231.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 11/1/2023

Updated: 11/2/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8231

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:puppetlabs:puppet_agent

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Puppet Agent

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/10/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/10/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8231

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