CVE-2017-10689

In previous versions of Puppet Agent it was possible to install a module with world writable permissions. Puppet Agent 5.3.4 and 1.10.10 included a fix to this vulnerability.

Published: 2018-02-09 Last update: 2024-11-21 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published

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Threat Intelligence & Risk Assessment for CVE-2017-10689

EPSS CVSS CWE GHSA Affected OS Tracker

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2017-10689 is rated Low Risk (27.4/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.05%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2017-10689

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

#	Date	Old EPSS score	New EPSS score	Delta (New - Old)
1	2023-03-07	0.89%	0.05%	-0.84%
2	2022-02-04	0.83%	0.89%	+0.06%
3	2021-04-14	—	0.83%	—

Full EPSS history (3 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2017-10689

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score	Version	Severity	Vector	Exploitability	Impact	Score source
5.5	3.0	MEDIUM	`CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N` Click to expand Attack vector (AV:L) They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by. Attack complexity (AC:L) Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup. Privileges required (PR:L) A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin. User interaction (UI:N) Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping. Scope (S:U) Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems. Confidentiality (C:N) Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way. Integrity (I:H) They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt. Availability (A:N) Service keeps running; no real outage angle.	1.8	3.6	[email protected]
2.1	2.0	LOW	`AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N` Click to expand Access vector (AV:L) Requires local access to the target system. Access complexity (AC:L) Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable. Authentication (AU:N) No authentication is required. Confidentiality impact (C:N) No confidentiality impact. Integrity impact (I:P) Partial integrity impact. Availability impact (A:N) No availability impact.	3.9	2.9	[email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2017-10689

CWE-269 MITRE ↗

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2017-10689

GHSA-vw22-465p-8j5w · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: rubygems — Tarball permission preservation in puppet

OS Trackers for CVE-2017-10689

vendor	priority	summary	link
`debian`	not yet assigned	CVE-2017-10689 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (puppet), 1 status rows across 1 suites (bullseye): resolved 1.	https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-10689
`redhat`	low	—	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10689
`suse`	medium	—	https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10689/
`ubuntu`	medium	CVE-2017-10689 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (puppet), 13 status rows across 13 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 9, released 2, ignored 1, needs-triage 1.	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-10689

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2017-10689

Vendor	Product	Version	Raw CPE
puppet	puppet	< 5.3.4	cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet::::::::
puppet	puppet	>= 1.10.0, < 1.10.10	cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet::::::::
puppet	puppet_enterprise	< 2016.4.10	cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise::::::::
puppet	puppet_enterprise	>= 2017.1.0, < 2017.3.4	cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise::::::::
canonical	ubuntu_linux	14.04	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04::::lts:::
redhat	satellite	6.4	cpe:2.3:a:redhat:satellite:6.4:::::::*

References for CVE-2017-10689

URL	Tags
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927	Third Party Advisory
https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10689	Vendor Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3567-1/	Third Party Advisory

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