CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-27026

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Published: Nov 18, 2021 | Modified: Jan 24, 2022
CVSS 3.x
4.4
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

A flaw was divered in Puppet Enterprise and other Puppet products where sensitive plan parameters may be logged

Weakness

Information written to log files can be of a sensitive nature and give valuable guidance to an attacker or expose sensitive user information.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Puppet Puppet 2021.0.0 (including) 2021.4.0 (excluding)
Puppet_connect Puppet * 0.4.0 (excluding)
Puppet_enterprise Puppet * 2019.8.9 (excluding)

Extended Description

While logging all information may be helpful during development stages, it is important that logging levels be set appropriately before a product ships so that sensitive user data and system information are not accidentally exposed to potential attackers. Different log files may be produced and stored for:

Potential Mitigations

References