CVE-2017-2290

HIGH 8.8CVE-2017-2290 · Published 03/03/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-2290 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability affecting mcollective-puppet-agent (puppet).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.2%, higher than 68.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
mcollective-puppet-agent puppet	`= 1.12.0`	No fix yet

Description

On Windows installations of the mcollective-puppet-agent plugin, version 1.12.0, a non-administrator user can create an executable that will be executed with administrator privileges on the next "mco puppet" run. Puppet Enterprise users are not affected. This is resolved in mcollective-puppet-agent 1.12.1.

References

securityfocus.com/bid/96583 · Third Party Advisory
puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2290 · Vendor Advisory

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