CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-6517

Improper Certificate Validation

Published: Mar 21, 2019 | 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:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Prior to version 0.3.0, chlorides use of net-ssh resulted in host fingerprints for previously unknown hosts getting added to the users known_hosts file without confirmation. In version 0.3.0 this is updated so that the users known_hosts file is not updated by chloride.

Weakness

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

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Chloride Puppet * 0.3.0 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References