Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-3251

Title: Puppet Puppet Enterprise Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-3251.

CWE Category CWE-362
Published Date Aug 12, 2014
Modified Date May 06, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 4.4 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.03%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-3251: The MCollective aes_security plugin, as used in Puppet Enterprise before 3.3.0 and Mcollective before 2.5.3, does not properly validate new server certificates based on the CA certificate, which allows local users to establish unauthorized Mcollective connections via unspecified vectors related to a race condition.

Impacted Vendors

P
puppet 2
P
puppetlabs 2

Reference Links

http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3251 http://secunia.com/advisories/59356 http://secunia.com/advisories/60066 http://www.osvdb.org/109257 http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3251 http://secunia.com/advisories/59356 http://secunia.com/advisories/60066 http://www.osvdb.org/109257
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.4
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-3251 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.