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CVE-2017-2293

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CVE-2017-2293

Published: Feb 1, 2018

Modified: Sep 16, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Versions of Puppet Enterprise prior to 2016.4.5 or 2017.2.1 shipped with an MCollective configuration that allowed the package plugin to install or remove arbitrary packages on all managed agents. This release adds default configuration to not allow these actions. Customers who rely on this functionality can change this policy.

VendorProductVersions

Puppet

Puppet Enterprise

affected
prior to 2016.4.5, 2016.5.x, 2017.1.x, resolved in 2016.4.5 and 2017.2.1

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