CVE-2017-2299

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-09-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-295

Description

Versions of the puppetlabs-apache module prior to 1.11.1 and 2.1.0 make it very easy to accidentally misconfigure TLS trust. If you specify the `ssl_ca` parameter but do not specify the `ssl_certs_dir` parameter, a default will be provided for the `ssl_certs_dir` that will trust certificates from any of the system-trusted certificate authorities. This did not affect FreeBSD.

Affected products

puppetlabs-apache: 0.0.4, 0.4.0, 0.6.0, 0.7.0, 0.8.0, 0.8.1 (+20)

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100859
https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2299
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100859
https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2299

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