5.3 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
0.0005 Low
EPSS
Percentile
18.2%
A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) issue was discovered inΒ Puppet Server 7.9.2 certificate validation. An issue related to specifically crafted certificate names significantly slowed down server operations.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the applicationβs 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(184140);
script_version("1.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/11/02");
script_cve_id("CVE-2023-1894", "CVE-2023-1894");
script_name(english:"Puppet Enterprise 2021.7.1 / 2023.0 DoS");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"An instance of Puppet Enterprise installed on the remote system is affected by a denial of service vulnerability.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) issue was discovered inΓΒ Puppet Server 7.9.2 certificate
validation. An issue related to specifically crafted certificate names significantly slowed down
server operations.
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/cve-2023-1894-puppet-server-redos");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade to Puppet Enterprise version 2021.7.3, 2023.1, or later.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"agent", value:"unix");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2023-1894");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2023/05/02");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/05/02");
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_enterprise");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Misc.");
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');
var app_info = vcf::get_app_info(app:'puppet_enterprise_console');
var constraintList = [
{ 'equal': '2021.7.1', 'fixed_version':'2021.7.3' },
{ 'equal':'2023.0', 'fixed_version':'2023.1' }
];
vcf::check_version_and_report(app_info:app_info, constraints:constraintList, severity:SECURITY_WARNING);
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
puppetlabs | puppet_enterprise | cpe:/a:puppetlabs:puppet_enterprise |
5.3 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
0.0005 Low
EPSS
Percentile
18.2%