CVE-2017-2294

high

Published 2017-07-05 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

7.5

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

Versions of Puppet Enterprise prior to 2016.4.5 or 2017.2.1 failed to mark MCollective server private keys as sensitive (a feature added in Puppet 4.6), so key values could be logged and stored in PuppetDB. These releases use the sensitive data type to ensure this won't happen anymore.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

83%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bullseye	fixed	`0`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`{"endIncluding":"2016.4.3"}`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`2016.5.1`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`2016.5.2`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`2017.1.0`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`2017.1.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.