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Puppet Agent 6.x < 6.22.1 / 7.x < 7.6.1 Vulnerability

low Nessus Plugin ID 184148

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Synopsis

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

Description

On February 16, 2021, OpenSSL published security updates addressing CVE-2021-23841, CVE-2021-23839, and CVE-2021-23840. Previous releases of Puppet Agent contain a vulnerable version of OpenSSL. For more information about this vulnerability, refer to the OpenSSL security announcement.

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 6.22.1, 7.6.1 or later.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?36a8a820

https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20210216.txt

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 184148

File Name: puppet_agent_CVE-2021-23841.nasl

Version: 1.2

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: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-23839

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 3.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/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: 5/4/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/4/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-23839, CVE-2021-23840, CVE-2021-23841