CVE-2021-27025

medium
Published 2021-12-02 · Modified 2024-11-29
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

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'.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-27025

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-27025.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed7.12.1-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbullseyeaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debiansidfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
ruby RubyGemspuppet<~> 6.25.1~> 6.25.1
ruby RubyGemspuppet>=7.0.0,<7.12.17.12.1
ruby RubyGemspuppet<6.25.16.25.1

References

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