CVE-2018-11746

Puppet Discovery can leak authentication information

State: Published
Severity: 8.6 High
Published: Jul 3, 2018
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Jun 5, 2018

Description

In Puppet Discovery prior to 1.2.0, when running Discovery against Windows hosts, WinRM connections can fall back to using basic auth over insecure channels if a HTTPS server is not available. This can expose the login credentials being used by Puppet Discovery.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	8.6 High	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N	puppet

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Puppet DiscoveryPuppet	before 1.2.0Affected

References

https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11746
[pulsar-commits] 20201215 [GitHub] [pulsar] yanshuchong opened a new issue #8967: CVSS issue listmailing-list

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