FKIE_CVE-2017-2296

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-02-01 22:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:15
Severity
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In Puppet Enterprise 2017.1.x and 2017.2.1, using specially formatted strings with certain formatting characters as Classifier node group names or RBAC role display names causes errors, effectively causing a DOS to the service. This was resolved in Puppet Enterprise 2017.2.2.
References
security@puppet.comhttps://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2296Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2296Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
puppet puppet_enterprise 2017.1.0
puppet puppet_enterprise 2017.1.1
puppet puppet_enterprise 2017.2.1
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