CVE-2017-2298

MEDIUM

mcollective-sshkey-security <0.5.1 - Path Traversal

Title source: llm

Description

The mcollective-sshkey-security plugin before 0.5.1 for Puppet uses a server-specified identifier as part of a path where a file is written. A compromised server could use this to write a file to an arbitrary location on the client with the filename appended with the string "_pub.pem".

References (3)

[Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/puppetlabs/mcollective-sshkey-security/blob/0.5.1/CHANGELOG.md

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[Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/puppetlabs/mcollective-sshkey-security/commit/3388a3109f4fb1c69fa8505e991bf59ca20d19a2

[Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory] https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2298

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0027

EPSS Percentile 50.3%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE

CWE-20

Status published

Products (2)

puppet/mcollective-sshkey-security < 0.5.0

Puppet/mcollective < < 0.5.1

Published Jun 30, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026