Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-2292

RCE

Title: Puppet Mcollective RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-2292.

CWE Category CWE-502

Published Date Jun 30, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.0 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.81%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-2292: Versions of MCollective prior to 2.10.4 deserialized YAML from agents without calling safe_load, allowing the potential for arbitrary code execution on the server. The fix for this is to call YAML.safe_load on input. This has been tested in all Puppet-supplied MCollective plugins, but there is a chance that third-party plugins could rely on this insecure behavior.

Impacted Vendors

puppet 1

Reference Links

https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2292 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-01 https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2292 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-01

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity CRITICAL

9.0

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

CHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns