Vulnerability CVE-2014-3251


Published: 2014-08-12   Modified: 2014-08-13

Description:
The MCollective aes_security plugin, as used in Puppet Enterprise before 3.3.0 and Mcollective before 2.5.3, does not properly validate new server certificates based on the CA certificate, which allows local users to establish unauthorized Mcollective connections via unspecified vectors related to a race condition.

Type:

CWE-362

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.4/10
6.4/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Puppetlabs -> Mcollective 
Puppetlabs -> Puppet 
Puppet -> Puppet enterprise 

 References:
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3251
http://www.osvdb.org/109257

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