CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-11748

Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Published: Oct 02, 2018 | Modified: Oct 03, 2019
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Previous releases of the Puppet device_manager module creates configuration files containing credentials that are world readable. This issue has been resolved as of device_manager 2.7.0.

Weakness

The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Device_manager Puppet * 2.7.0 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References