For certificates that utilize the auto-renew feature in Puppet Server, a flaw exists which prevents the certificates from being revoked.
Weakness
The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Puppet_enterprise | Puppet | 2023.3 (including) | 2023.3 (including) |
| Puppet_server | Puppet | 8.2.0 (including) | 8.2.0 (including) |
| Puppet_server | Puppet | 8.2.1 (including) | 8.2.1 (including) |
| Puppet | Ubuntu | bionic | * |
| Puppet | Ubuntu | focal | * |
| Puppet | Ubuntu | trusty | * |
| Puppet | Ubuntu | trusty/esm | * |
| Puppet | Ubuntu | xenial | * |
Potential Mitigations
- Use a language that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
- For example, languages such as Java, Ruby, and Lisp perform automatic garbage collection that releases memory for objects that have been deallocated.
Related Attack Patterns
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/125.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/130.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/131.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/494.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/495.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/496.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/666.html