CVE-2018-11746 HIGH

CVE-2018-11746: Puppet Discovery can leak authentication information

Vendor Puppet
Product Puppet Discovery
Published July 3, 2018
Last update September 16, 2024
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CVSS base score

8.6/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

In Puppet Discovery prior to 1.2.0, when running Discovery against Windows hosts, WinRM connections can fall back to using basic auth over insecure channels if a HTTPS server is not available. This can expose the login credentials being used by Puppet Discovery.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

July 3, 2018 CVE published
September 16, 2024 Record updated