Previous versions of Puppet Agent didn't verify the peer in the SSL connection prior to downloading the CRL.

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• puppet puppet server6.0.0 and later · before 6.4.0

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (puppet). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• n/a Puppet Agent, Puppet

  • Puppet Agent 6.x prior to 6.4.0, Puppet 6.x prior to 6.4.xaffected

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2014-7170Race condition in Puppet Server 0.2.0 allows local users to obtain sensitive information by accessing it in between package installation or
  7Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

A certificate validation error is silently swallowed instead of terminating the connection. Often, code added for a test environment makes its way into production.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1override fun checkServerTrusted(chain: Array<X509Certificate>, type: String) {2  // Left empty for the test environment3}

1val client = OkHttpClient.Builder()2  .certificatePinner(3    CertificatePinner.Builder()4      .add("api.sirius.example", "sha256/…")5      .build()6  ).build()

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.