Puppet Agent 6.x < 6.22.1 / 7.x < 7.6.1 Vulnerability

medium Nessus Plugin ID 184145

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Synopsis

An instance of Puppet Agent installed on the remote system is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

On March 31, 2021, curl published security updates addressing CVE-2021-22876 and CVE-2021-22890. Previous releases of Puppet Agent contain a vulnerable version of curl. For more information about this vulnerability, refer to the curl security announcements.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Puppet Agent version 6.22.1, 7.6.1 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 184145

File Name: puppet_agent_CVE-2021-22876.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 11/1/2023

Updated: 11/2/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-22876

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:puppetlabs:puppet_agent

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Puppet Agent

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/4/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/4/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-22876, CVE-2021-22890

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