Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-2298

Title: Puppet Mcollective-Sshkey-Security Improper Input Validation

Input Validation Error

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-2298.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Jun 30, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.5 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.27%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-2298: The mcollective-sshkey-security plugin before 0.5.1 for Puppet uses a server-specified identifier as part of a path where a file is written. A compromised server could use this to write a file to an arbitrary location on the client with the filename appended with the string "_pub.pem".

Impacted Vendors

puppet 1

Reference Links

https://github.com/puppetlabs/mcollective-sshkey-security/blob/0.5.1/CHANGELOG.md https://github.com/puppetlabs/mcollective-sshkey-security/commit/3388a3109f4fb1c69fa8505e991bf59ca20d19a2 https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2298 https://github.com/puppetlabs/mcollective-sshkey-security/blob/0.5.1/CHANGELOG.md https://github.com/puppetlabs/mcollective-sshkey-security/commit/3388a3109f4fb1c69fa8505e991bf59ca20d19a2 https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2298

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns