CVSS 3.0
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NCVE-2017-10689
Medium (5.5). EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in puppet 4.10.10, 5.3.4.
In previous versions of Puppet Agent it was possible to install a module with world writable permissions. Puppet Agent 5.3.4 and 1.10.10 included a fix to this vulnerability.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 29% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-269
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- puppet:puppet
- puppet:puppet_enterprise
- redhat:satellite
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-vw22-465p-8j5w | RubyGems | puppet | <4.10.10 | 4.10.10 |
| GHSA-vw22-465p-8j5w | RubyGems | puppet | >=5.0.0 <5.3.4 | 5.3.4 |