Puppet Enterprise Installation Process Local CA Key Disclosure

medium Nessus Plugin ID 87472

Synopsis

A web application on the remote host is affected by an information disclosure vulnerability.

Description

According to its self-reported version number, the Puppet Enterprise application installed on the remote host is version 3.8.x prior to 3.8.3 or 4.2.x prior to 4.2.3. It is, therefore, affected by an information disclosure vulnerability due to the generated CA key being left in a world-readable state during initial installation and configuration. A local attacker can exploit this to gain access to CA key information.

Solution

Upgrade to Puppet Enterprise version 3.8.3 / 4.2.3 or later. Note that version 4.2.3 is also known as Puppet Enterprise 2015.2.3

See Also

https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/6.0/release_notes.html

https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2015-7328

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 87472

File Name: puppet_enterprise_383.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 12/17/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

Temporal Score: 1.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-7328

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:puppetlabs:puppet

Required KB Items: puppet/rest_port

Exploit Ease: No exploit is required

Patch Publication Date: 11/5/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/5/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-7328