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Ubuntu 10.10 / 11.04 / 11.10 : Puppet vulnerability (USN-1365-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 57958

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

It was discovered that Puppet would allow remote ralsh under certain circumstances. An attacker on an authenticated puppet node could exploit this to view or manipulate resources on other Puppet nodes.

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Solution

Update the affected puppet-common package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1365-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 57958

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1365-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/15/2012

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:puppet-common, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 2/14/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/17/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0528

USN: 1365-1