CVE-2023-1894 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) issue was discovered in Puppet Server 7.9.2 certificate validation. An issue related to specifically crafted certificate names significantly slowed down server operations.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00045.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Puppet	Puppet Enterprise Puppet Server
Redhat	Satellite Satellite Capsule

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:2021.7.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:2023.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_server:7.9.2:::::::*

Package	CPE	Advisory	Released Date
Red Hat Satellite 6.14 for RHEL 8
puppetserver-0:7.11.0-1.el8sat	cpe:/a:redhat:satellite:6.14::el8	RHSA-2023:6818	2023-11-08T00:00:00Z
puppetserver-0:7.11.0-1.el8sat	cpe:/a:redhat:satellite_capsule:6.14::el8	RHSA-2023:6818	2023-11-08T00:00:00Z

No data.

Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-24083	A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) issue was discovered in Puppet Server 7.9.2 certificate validation. An issue related to specifically crafted certificate names significantly slowed down server operations.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1894
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-1894
https://www.puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2023-1894-puppet-server-redos

History

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: puppet

Published: 2023-05-04T22:13:02.556Z

Updated: 2025-01-29T17:55:40.169Z

Reserved: 2023-04-05T19:39:06.485Z

Link: CVE-2023-1894

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T06:05:26.999Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-05-04T23:15:08.763

Modified: 2025-01-29T18:15:44.620

Link: CVE-2023-1894

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2023-05-02T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-1894 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

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