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Medium severity4.9NVD Advisory· Published Feb 1, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-2293

CVE-2017-2293

Description

Versions of Puppet Enterprise prior to 2016.4.5 or 2017.2.1 shipped with an MCollective configuration that allowed the package plugin to install or remove arbitrary packages on all managed agents. This release adds default configuration to not allow these actions. Customers who rely on this functionality can change this policy.

Affected products

2
  • Puppet (software)/Puppet Enterprisellm-fuzzy2 versions
    <2016.4.5 or <2017.2.1+ 1 more
    • (no CPE)range: <2016.4.5 or <2017.2.1
    • (no CPE)range: prior to 2016.4.5, 2016.5.x, 2017.1.x, resolved in 2016.4.5 and 2017.2.1

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

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