Puppet Enterprise < 2019.8.7 / 2021.x < 2021.2 Curl Vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 184149

Synopsis

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

Description

For more information about this vulnerability, refer to the security announcements.

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 2019.8.7, 2021.2 or later.

See Also

https://www.puppet.com/security/cve/curl-june-2021-security-fixes

https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2021-22897.html

https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2021-22898.html

https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2021-22901.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 184149

File Name: puppet_enterprise_CVE-2021-22897.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: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-22901

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:puppetlabs:puppet_enterprise

Required KB Items: installed_sw/puppet_enterprise_console

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/24/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/24/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-22897, CVE-2021-22898, CVE-2021-22901