CVE-2018-11749 is a critical vulnerability affecting Puppet Enterprise versions 2018.1.3, 2017.3.9, and 2016.4.14, where user credentials are sent in plaintext to the LDAP server during login when startTLS with RBAC LDAP is configured. This flaw has a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), indicating a network-exploitable vulnerability with low attack complexity, leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, surpassing 99% of all CVEs.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2016.4.14CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 2017.3.0, <= 2017.3.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 2018.1.0, <= 2018.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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.