CVE Catalog

CVE-2017-2290

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

In version 1.12.0 of the mcollective-puppet-agent plugin on Windows installations, 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.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability may lead to unauthorized code execution with administrator privileges, posing a serious security risk to the system.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the mcollective-puppet-agent plugin to version 1.12.1 to mitigate this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS