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.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-11475 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: puppet

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-16T23:52:02.685Z

Reserved: 2016-12-01T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-2292

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-06-30T20:29:00.170

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-2292

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2017-05-11T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-2292 - Bugzilla

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