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CVE-2017-2299

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-2299 describes a misconfiguration vulnerability in the puppetlabs-apache module (versions prior to 1.11.1 and 2.1.0) that can lead to unintended trust of system-wide certificate authorities if the ssl_ca parameter is used without specifying ssl_certs_dir. This affects Puppet deployments utilizing the vulnerable apache module. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3 score of 7.5 (High), indicating a network-exploitable issue with low attack complexity that could result in high confidentiality impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppetlabs-apache:0.0.4:*:*:*:*:puppet:*:*
0.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppetlabs-apache:0.4.0:*:*:*:*:puppet:*:*
0.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppetlabs-apache:0.6.0:*:*:*:*:puppet:*:*
0.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppetlabs-apache:0.7.0:*:*:*:*:puppet:*:*
0.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppetlabs-apache:0.8.0:*:*:*:*:puppet:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.85%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
54.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0085 is in the 29th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton)Fixed in: puppet-apache
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 (Ocata)Fixed in: puppet-apache

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-2299Low

puppet-apache: Possible TLS trust misconfiguration in puppetlabs-apache

Sep 13, 2017

References

puppet.com / security/cve/CVE-2017-2299
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/100859
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry