{"id":"USN-4804-1","summary":"puppet vulnerabilities","details":"It was discovered that Puppet installed modules with world writable\npermissions. An attacker could use this vulnerability to execute arbitrary\ncode or cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-10689)\n\nIt was discovered that Puppet could be used to force YAML deserialization in an\nunsafe manner. A remote attacker could use this vulnerability for remote code\nexecution. (CVE-2017-2295)\n","modified":"2026-06-25T13:30:28.825793199Z","published":"2021-03-15T21:31:34Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2017-10689","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-2295"],"upstream":["CVE-2017-10689","CVE-2017-2295","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-10689","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-2295"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4804-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-2295"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-10689"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"puppet","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/puppet?arch=source&distro=esm-apps%2Fxenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.8.5-2ubuntu0.1+esm1"}]}],"versions":["3.7.2-5ubuntu2","3.8.4-1ubuntu1","3.8.5-1ubuntu1","3.8.5-2","3.8.5-2ubuntu0.1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro","binaries":[{"binary_name":"puppet","binary_version":"3.8.5-2ubuntu0.1+esm1"},{"binary_name":"puppet-common","binary_version":"3.8.5-2ubuntu0.1+esm1"},{"binary_name":"puppet-el","binary_version":"3.8.5-2ubuntu0.1+esm1"},{"binary_name":"puppet-testsuite","binary_version":"3.8.5-2ubuntu0.1+esm1"},{"binary_version":"3.8.5-2ubuntu0.1+esm1","binary_name":"puppetmaster"},{"binary_name":"puppetmaster-common","binary_version":"3.8.5-2ubuntu0.1+esm1"},{"binary_name":"puppetmaster-passenger","binary_version":"3.8.5-2ubuntu0.1+esm1"},{"binary_name":"vim-puppet","binary_version":"3.8.5-2ubuntu0.1+esm1"}]},"database_specific":{"cves_map":{"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS","cves":[{"id":"CVE-2017-2295","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]},{"severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}],"id":"CVE-2017-10689"}]},"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-4804-1.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}