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SCA: security update for puppet (GHSA-q4g7-jrxv-67r9)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 417863

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - A flaw was discovered in Puppet Agent where the agent may silently ignore Augeas settings or may be
 vulnerable to a Denial of Service condition prior to the first 'pluginsync'. (CVE-2021-27025)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q4g7-jrxv-67r9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 417863

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 1/28/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-27025

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/2/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/18/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-27025