CVE-2017-10690

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% 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 for the agent to retrieve facts from an environment that it was not classified to retrieve from. This was resolved in Puppet Agent 5.3.4, included in Puppet Enterprise 2017.3.4

Affected products

Puppet Agent: before 5.3.4 — fixed in 5.3.4
Puppet Enterprise: before 2017.3.4 — fixed in 2017.3.4
Red Hat Satellite 6: 6.4

How to fix

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

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927
https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10690
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927
https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10690

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