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CVE-2017-2292: puppet mcollective Deserialization of Untrusted Data

CVSS: 9.0v3.0CriticalModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2017-2292DEBIAN-CVE-2017-2292
Published 30-06-2017Last modified 16-09-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-2292 is a critical (CVSS 9.0) Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in puppet mcollective. EPSS estimates a 2.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
70/100
0100
High · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
9.0/10
010
Critical · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
2.18%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 30-06-2017
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 16-09-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Versions of MCollective prior to 2.10.4 deserialized YAML from agents without calling safe_load, allowing the potential for arbitrary code execution on the server. The fix for this is to call YAML.safe_load on input. This has been tested in all Puppet-supplied MCollective plugins, but there is a chance that third-party plugins could rely on this insecure behavior.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

2.18%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

82%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 2.18% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
2.18%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Puppet2 products
Debian1 product
  • mcollective< 2.12.0+dfsg-1
Ubuntu1 product
  • mcollectiveAll versions (No fix recorded)

3 vendors · 4 products

References

6 links