CVE-2018-11746
HIGHPuppet Discovery < 1.2.0 - Insufficiently Protected Credentials via WinRM Basic Auth Fallback
Title source: llmDescription
In Puppet Discovery prior to 1.2.0, when running Discovery against Windows hosts, WinRM connections can fall back to using basic auth over insecure channels if a HTTPS server is not available. This can expose the login credentials being used by Puppet Discovery.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11746
Mailing List mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd0e44e8ef71eeaaa3cf3d1b8b41eb25894372e2995ec908ce7624d26%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E
Scores
CVSS v3
8.6
EPSS
0.0138
EPSS Percentile
68.6%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-522
Status
published
Products (1)
puppet/discovery
< 1.2.0
Published
Jul 03, 2018
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026