Puppet Enterprise 2017 < 2017.2.2 DoS Vulnerability

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if( description )
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.113101");
  script_version("2025-12-11T05:46:19+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-12-11 05:46:19 +0000 (Thu, 11 Dec 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2018-02-02 11:40:38 +0100 (Fri, 02 Feb 2018)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2018-02-24 16:29:00 +0000 (Sat, 24 Feb 2018)");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-2296");

  script_name("Puppet Enterprise 2017 < 2017.2.2 DoS Vulnerability");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2018 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Web application abuses");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Puppet Enterprise before 2017.2.2 is prone to a denial of
  service (DoS) vulnerability.

  This VT has duplicated the existing VT 'Puppet Enterprise 2017 < 2017.2.2 DoS Vulnerability'
  (OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.106930).");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"In the affected versions, 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.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Puppet Enterprise from 2017.1.0 through 2017.2.1");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to 2017.2.2");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2296");

  script_tag(name:"deprecated", value:TRUE);

  exit(0);
}

exit(66);