CVE-2018-11747 describes a critical vulnerability in Puppet Discovery versions prior to 1.4.0, where the nginx container was shipped with a default, non-unique TLS certificate. This flaw, rated 9.8 CRITICAL (CVSSv3), allows unauthenticated attackers to compromise confidentiality, integrity, and availability due to the ease of impersonation and interception. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness and potential for future exploitation.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:puppet:discovery:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.