openSUSE Security Update : puppet (openSUSE-SU-2011:1190-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 75998

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

A directory traversal vulnerability in puppet allowed unauthenticated remote attackers to upload x.509 certificate signing requests to arbitrary locations (CVE-2011-3848)

Solution

Update the affected puppet packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=721139

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-10/msg00033.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 75998

File Name: suse_11_4_puppet-111005.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.4, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:puppet-server, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:puppet

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 10/5/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3848