CVE-2017-2290 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Windows installations of the mcollective-puppet-agent plugin, specifically version 1.12.0. A non-administrator user can craft an executable that will be run with administrator privileges during the subsequent "mco puppet" execution. This vulnerability is rated with a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), indicating a network-exploitable flaw with low attack complexity, requiring only low privileges, and leading to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While no active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion has been observed, the vulnerability is resolved in mcollective-puppet-agent version 1.12.1.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.12.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:puppet:mcollective-puppet-agent:1.12.0:*:*:*:*:puppet:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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