Previous releases of Puppet Enterprise contain a vulnerable version of curl. For more information about this vulnerability, refer to the security announcement for CVE-2020-8231.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text in this plugin were
# extracted from the PuppetLabs Security Advisory page. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Perforce Software, Inc.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(184138);
script_version("1.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/11/02");
script_cve_id("CVE-2020-8231");
script_name(english:"Puppet Enterprise < 2018.1.17 / 2019.x < 2019.8.3 Curl Vulnerability");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"An instance of Puppet Enterprise installed on the remote system is affected by a vulnerability.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"Previous releases of Puppet Enterprise contain a vulnerable version of curl. For more information about
this vulnerability, refer to the security announcement for CVE-2020-8231.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.puppet.com/security/cve/curl-august-2020-security-fixes");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade to Puppet Enterprise version 2018.1.17, 2019.8.3, or later.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"agent", value:"unix");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2020-8231");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2020/11/10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/11/10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/11/01");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:puppetlabs:puppet_agent");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Windows");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("puppet_enterprise_nix_installed.nbin");
script_require_keys("installed_sw/puppet_enterprise_console");
exit(0);
}
include('vcf.inc');
include('http.inc');
var app_info = vcf::get_app_info(app:'puppet_enterprise_console');
var constraintList = [
{ 'min_version':'2018.0', 'fixed_version':'2018.1.17' },
{ 'min_version':'2019.0', 'fixed_version':'2019.8.3' }
];
vcf::check_version_and_report(app_info:app_info, constraints:constraintList, severity:SECURITY_WARNING);
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
puppetlabs | puppet_agent | cpe:/a:puppetlabs:puppet_agent |