CVE-2014-3251

Summary

CVECVE-2014-3251
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-08-12 23:55:00 UTC
Updated2019-07-10 18:10:00 UTC
DescriptionThe MCollective aes_security plugin, as used in Puppet Enterprise before 3.3.0 and Mcollective before 2.5.3, does not properly validate new server certificates based on the CA certificate, which allows local users to establish unauthorized Mcollective connections via unspecified vectors related to a race condition.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-362

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Puppet Puppet Enterprise All All All All
Application Puppetlabs Mcollective - All All All
Application Puppetlabs Mcollective - All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
About Secunia Research | Flexera SECUNIA secunia.com
About Secunia Research | Flexera SECUNIA secunia.com
CVE-2014-3251 | Puppet Labs CONFIRM puppetlabs.com Vendor Advisory
109257 OSVDB www.osvdb.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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