CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-2299

Improper Certificate Validation

Published: Sep 15, 2017 | Modified: Oct 03, 2019
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Versions of the puppetlabs-apache module prior to 1.11.1 and 2.1.0 make it very easy to accidentally misconfigure TLS trust. If you specify the ssl_ca parameter but do not specify the ssl_certs_dir parameter, a default will be provided for the ssl_certs_dir that will trust certificates from any of the system-trusted certificate authorities. This did not affect FreeBSD.

Weakness

The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Puppetlabs-apache Puppet 0.0.4 (including) 0.0.4 (including)
Puppetlabs-apache Puppet 0.4.0 (including) 0.4.0 (including)
Puppetlabs-apache Puppet 0.6.0 (including) 0.6.0 (including)
Puppetlabs-apache Puppet 0.7.0 (including) 0.7.0 (including)
Puppetlabs-apache Puppet 0.8.0 (including) 0.8.0 (including)
Puppetlabs-apache Puppet 0.8.1 (including) 0.8.1 (including)
Puppetlabs-apache Puppet 0.9.0 (including) 0.9.0 (including)
Puppetlabs-apache Puppet 0.10.0 (including) 0.10.0 (including)
Puppetlabs-apache Puppet 0.11.0 (including) 0.11.0 (including)
Puppetlabs-apache Puppet 1.0.0 (including) 1.0.0 (including)
Puppetlabs-apache Puppet 1.0.1 (including) 1.0.1 (including)
Puppetlabs-apache Puppet 1.1.0 (including) 1.1.0 (including)
Puppetlabs-apache Puppet 1.1.1 (including) 1.1.1 (including)
Puppetlabs-apache Puppet 1.2.0 (including) 1.2.0 (including)
Puppetlabs-apache Puppet 1.3.0 (including) 1.3.0 (including)
Puppetlabs-apache Puppet 1.4.0 (including) 1.4.0 (including)
Puppetlabs-apache Puppet 1.4.1 (including) 1.4.1 (including)
Puppetlabs-apache Puppet 1.5.0 (including) 1.5.0 (including)
Puppetlabs-apache Puppet 1.6.0 (including) 1.6.0 (including)
Puppetlabs-apache Puppet 1.7.0 (including) 1.7.0 (including)
Puppetlabs-apache Puppet 1.7.1 (including) 1.7.1 (including)
Puppetlabs-apache Puppet 1.8.0 (including) 1.8.0 (including)
Puppetlabs-apache Puppet 1.8.1 (including) 1.8.1 (including)
Puppetlabs-apache Puppet 1.10.0 (including) 1.10.0 (including)
Puppetlabs-apache Puppet 1.11.0 (including) 1.11.0 (including)
Puppetlabs-apache Puppet 2.0.0 (including) 2.0.0 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References