CVE-2021-27018 is a certificate validation flaw in Puppet Remediate, specifically when configured to use Tenable.sc as its vulnerability data source. This vulnerability allows certificates signed by an internal certificate authority to bypass proper validation, posing a high-severity risk with a CVSS score of 7.5. It is a network-exploitable vulnerability with low attack complexity, requiring no user interaction or privileges, and could lead to high integrity impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:puppet:remediate:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.