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CVE-2014-3251

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-3251 describes a race condition vulnerability in the MCollective aes_security plugin, affecting Puppet Enterprise before 3.3.0 and MCollective before 2.5.3. This flaw allows local users to establish unauthorized MCollective connections due to improper validation of new server certificates against the CA certificate. With a CVSS score of 4.4 (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P), it indicates a low-severity vulnerability requiring local access and medium attack complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. There is no known exploit intelligence, active exploitation, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppetlabs:mcollective:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.4MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.18%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
7.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0018 is in the 4th percentile among its peer group of 1,595 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift Enterprise 1Fixed in: mcollective
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2Fixed in: ruby193-mcollective

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-3251Moderate

mcollective: aes_security.rb file creation vulnerability

Jul 15, 2014

References

puppetlabs.com / security/cve/cve-2014-3251
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/59356
secunia.com / advisories/60066
osvdb.org / 109257