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Fencer Intel
medium 6.5

CVE-2014-3250 json

The default vhost configuration file in Puppet before 3.6.2 does not include the SSLCARevocationCheck directive, which might allow remote a…

published 2017-12-11 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-3263

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 59%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The default vhost configuration file in Puppet before 3.6.2 does not include the SSLCARevocationCheck directive, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a revoked certificate when a Puppet master runs with Apache 2.4.

Patch / fix

  • puppet puppet 3.6.2
  • puppet Debian 11 3.7.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3250

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-3250 updated cvss 5.0

puppet: certificates could be honored even when revoked

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 (Icehouse) puppet Red Hat OpenStack Platform 3 puppet Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4 puppet
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Satellite 6 puppet, puppet-server
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager ruby193-puppet
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.89% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.