CVE-2017-2296 (GCVE-0-2017-2296)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-02-01 22:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 03:48
VLAI
Summary
In Puppet Enterprise 2017.1.x and 2017.2.1, using specially formatted strings with certain formatting characters as Classifier node group names or RBAC role display names causes errors, effectively causing a DOS to the service. This was resolved in Puppet Enterprise 2017.2.2.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • Denial of Service
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2296 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Puppet Puppet Enterprise Affected: 2017.1.x, 2017.2.1. Fixed in 2017.2.2
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Date Public
2018-02-01 00:00
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