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CVE-2017-2292

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.0 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-06-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-502

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.

Affected products

• Puppet mcollective, Puppet, Puppet Enterprise: through 2.10.3

References

• https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2292
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-01
• https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2292
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-01

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