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CVE-2023-5309 (GCVE-0-2023-5309)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-07 19:01 – Updated: 2024-09-04 19:03
VLAI
Title
Broken Session Management in Puppet Enterprise
Summary
Versions of Puppet Enterprise prior to 2021.7.6 and 2023.5 contain a flaw which results in broken session management for SAML implementations.
Severity
6.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-04 19:02 UTC
CWE
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Vendor Product Version CPE status
Puppet Puppet Enterprise Affected: 2021.7.0 , < 2021.7.6 (semver)
Affected: 2023.0.0 , < 2023.5 (semver)
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