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Puppet Enterprise 2021.x < 2021.0 / 2023.x < 2023.2 RCE

critical Nessus Plugin ID 184142

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Synopsis

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

Description

A privilege escalation allowing remote code execution was discovered in the orchestration service.

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 2021.7.4, 2023.2, or later.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?177391b8

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 184142

File Name: puppet_enterprise_CVE-2023-2530.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: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-2530

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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: 6/7/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/7/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-2530