GHSA-q4g7-jrxv-67r9

Silent Configuration Failure in Puppet Agent

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2021-27025

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
RubyGems	puppet	>= 7.0.0, < 7.12.1	7.12.1
RubyGems	puppet	< 6.25.1	6.25.1

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

A flaw was discovered in Puppet Agent where the agent may silently ignore Augeas settings or may be vulnerable to a Denial of Service condition prior to the first 'pluginsync'.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-27025 advisory
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet package
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/puppet/CVE-2021-27025.yml web
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/62SELE7EKVKZL4GABFMVYMIIUZ7FPEF7 web
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2021-27025 web