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HistoryNov 23, 2011 - 12:00 a.m.

Debian DSA-2352-1 : puppet - programming error

2011-11-2300:00:00
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CVSS2

2.6

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

EPSS

0.004

Percentile

74.2%

It was discovered that Puppet, a centralized configuration management solution, misgenerated certificates if the ‘certdnsnames’ option was used. This could lead to man in the middle attacks. More details are available on the Puppet website.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-2352. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(56923);
  script_version("1.11");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2011-3872");
  script_bugtraq_id(50356);
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"2352");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-2352-1 : puppet - programming error");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"It was discovered that Puppet, a centralized configuration management
solution, misgenerated certificates if the 'certdnsnames' option was
used. This could lead to man in the middle attacks. More details are
available on the Puppet website."
  );
  # http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3872/
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3872"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/puppet"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2352"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Upgrade the puppet packages.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.24.5-3+lenny2.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.6.2-5+squeeze3."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:puppet");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2011/11/22");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2011/11/23");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"5.0", prefix:"puppet", reference:"0.24.5-3+lenny2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"puppet", reference:"2.6.2-5+squeeze3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"puppet-common", reference:"2.6.2-5+squeeze3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"puppet-el", reference:"2.6.2-5+squeeze3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"puppet-testsuite", reference:"2.6.2-5+squeeze3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"puppetmaster", reference:"2.6.2-5+squeeze3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"vim-puppet", reference:"2.6.2-5+squeeze3")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_note(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_note(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");

CVSS2

2.6

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

EPSS

0.004

Percentile

74.2%