CVE-2017-2298

MediumCVSS 6.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

The mcollective-sshkey-security plugin before 0.5.1 for Puppet uses a server-specified identifier as part of a path where a file is written. A compromised server could use this to write a file to an arbitrary location on the client with the filename appended with the string "_pub.pem".

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 6.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-20

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jun 30, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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