Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-2290

Title: Puppet Mcollective-Puppet-Agent Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-2290.

CWE Category CWE-732

Published Date Mar 03, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 8.8 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.39%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-2290: On Windows installations of the mcollective-puppet-agent plugin, version 1.12.0, a non-administrator user can create an executable that will be executed with administrator privileges on the next "mco puppet" run. Puppet Enterprise users are not affected. This is resolved in mcollective-puppet-agent 1.12.1.

Impacted Vendors

puppetlabs 1

puppet 1

Reference Links

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96583 https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2290 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96583 https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2290

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

8.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

9.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns