CVE-2021-3469

MEDIUM

Foreman < 2.3.4 - Authenticated Impersonation via Puppet CA SAN Handling

Title source: llm

Description

Foreman versions before 2.3.4 and before 2.4.0 is affected by an improper authorization handling flaw. An authenticated attacker can impersonate the foreman-proxy if product enable the Puppet Certificate authority (CA) to sign certificate requests that have subject alternative names (SANs). Foreman do not enable SANs by default and `allow-authorization-extensions` is set to `false` unless user change `/etc/puppetlabs/puppetserver/conf.d/ca.conf` configuration explicitly.

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1943630

Scores

CVSS v3 5.4

EPSS 0.0033

EPSS Percentile 24.9%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Details

CWE

CWE-863

Status published

Products (1)

theforeman/foreman < 2.3.4

Published Jun 03, 2021

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026