CVE-2017-2297 describes an authentication bypass vulnerability in Puppet Enterprise versions prior to 2016.4.5 and 2017.2.1. The flaw allowed unauthenticated access to labeled RBAC tokens, which are not enabled by default. This vulnerability is rated as HIGH severity (CVSS 7.5), indicating a high potential for compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, though it requires high attack complexity and low privileges. There is 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2016.4.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2016.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:2016.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2016.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:2016.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2017.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:2017.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2017.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:2017.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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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.