CVE-2018-11749

9.8 criticalEPSS 0.8%

Critical (9.8) in puppet puppet enterprise. EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

When users are configured to use startTLS with RBAC LDAP, at login time, the user's credentials are sent via plaintext to the LDAP server. This affects Puppet Enterprise 2018.1.3, 2017.3.9, and 2016.4.14, and is fixed in Puppet Enterprise 2018.1.4, 2017.3.10, and 2016.4.15. It scored an 8.5 CVSS score.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

9.8 critical

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

EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 55% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-319
Published: 2018-08-24
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

puppet:puppet_enterprise

References

https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2018-11749
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2018-11749

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