CVE-2017-2290

—

CVSS 3.1

8.8 high

EPSS

1%p67

Published

Mar 3, 2017 (Mar 3, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Vendors: puppet
Products: mcollective-puppet-agent
Weakness: CWE-732
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.2%)

In the news0 stories

No ingested article mentions this CVE yet.