CVE-2018-11746 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

In Puppet Discovery prior to 1.2.0, when running Discovery against Windows hosts, WinRM connections can fall back to using basic auth over insecure channels if a HTTPS server is not available. This can expose the login credentials being used by Puppet Discovery.

Published: 2018-07-03

Score: 8.6 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Puppet

Puppet Discovery

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`unspecified`	affected	< 1.2.0

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:puppet:discovery:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2018-3765	In Puppet Discovery prior to 1.2.0, when running Discovery against Windows hosts, WinRM connections can fall back to using basic auth over insecure channels if a HTTPS server is not available. This can expose the login credentials being used by Puppet Discovery.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00217.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd0e44e8ef71eeaaa3cf3d1b8b41eb25894372e2995ec908ce7624d26%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E
https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11746

History

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Subscriptions

Puppet Discovery

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: puppet

Published: 2018-07-03T13:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T23:55:51.656Z

Reserved: 2018-06-05T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-11746

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-07-03T13:29:00.233

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:43:57.133

Link: CVE-2018-11746

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-522

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