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CVE-2017-2290
HIGH · CVSS 8.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-03-03T15:59:00.647 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:15:53.900

Summary

On Windows installations of the mcollective-puppet-agent plugin, version 1.12.0, a non-administrator user can create an executable that will be executed with administrator privileges on the next "mco puppet" run. Puppet Enterprise users are not affected. This is resolved in mcollective-puppet-agent 1.12.1.

Affected products

puppet — mcollective-puppet-agent

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References

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