CVE-2017-10689

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-02-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-269

Description

In previous versions of Puppet Agent it was possible to install a module with world writable permissions. Puppet Agent 5.3.4 and 1.10.10 included a fix to this vulnerability.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04
Puppet Agent: before 5.3.4; from 1.10.0 before 1.10.10 — fixed in 1.10.10, 5.3.4
Puppet Enterprise: before 2016.4.10; from 2017.1.0 before 2017.3.4 — fixed in 2016.4.10, 2017.3.4
Red Hat Satellite 6: 6.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Puppet Agent 1.10.10, 5.3.4; Puppet Enterprise 2016.4.10, 2017.3.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927
https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10689
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3567-1/
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927
https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10689
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3567-1/

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