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critical 10.0

CVE-2015-1842 json

The puppet manifests in the Red Hat openstack-puppet-modules package before 2014.2.13-2 uses a default password of CHANGEME for the pcsd da…

published 11y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2015-1953

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.2%
EPSS 5.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The puppet manifests in the Red Hat openstack-puppet-modules package before 2014.2.13-2 uses a default password of CHANGEME for the pcsd daemon, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands via unspecified vectors.

Patch / fix

  • openstack-foreman-installer openstack-installer 5 2.0.34-1.el6ost
  • augeas openstack-installer 5 1.0.0-7.el6_6.1
  • rhel-osp-installer openstack-installer 5 1:0.4.7-2.el6ost
  • openstack-puppet-modules openstack-installer 5, openstack 5 2014.1.2-1.el6ost
  • ruby193-rubygem-staypuft openstack-installer 5 0.4.15-1.el6ost
  • openstack-packstack openstack 5 2014.1.1-0.46.dev1280.el7ost
  • openstack-puppet-modules openstack 5 2014.1.2-1.el7ost
  • openstack-packstack-puppet openstack 5 2014.1.1-0.46.dev1280.el7ost

red hat advisories RHSA-2015:0830RHSA-2015:0831RHSA-2015:0832RHSA-2015:0789RHSA-2015:0791

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red hat product security vex CVE-2015-1842 updated cvss 9.3

openstack-puppet-modules: pacemaker configured with default password

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4 openstack-puppet-modules, openstack-foreman-installer
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat OpenStack 6 Installer for RHEL 7 foreman-proxy 1.6.0.30-6.el7ost, rhel-osp-installer 0.5.7-1.el7ost, rhel-osp-installer-client 0.5.7-1.el7ost, ruby193-rubygem-staypuft 0.5.22-1.el7ost, openstack-foreman-installer 3.0.22-1.el7ost, openstack-puppet-modules 2014.2.13-2.el7ost, +1 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:0791
  • Red Hat OpenStack Foreman augeas 1.0.0-7.el6_6.1, rhel-osp-installer 0.4.7-2.el6ost, ruby193-rubygem-staypuft 0.4.15-1.el6ost, openstack-puppet-modules 2014.1.2-1.el6ost, openstack-foreman-installer 2.0.34-1.el6ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:0830
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6 openstack-puppet-modules 2014.1.2-1.el6ost, openstack-packstack 2014.1.1-0.46.dev1280.el6ost, openstack-packstack-puppet 2014.1.1-0.46.dev1280.el6ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:0832
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7 openstack-puppet-modules 2014.1.2-1.el7ost, openstack-packstack 2014.1.1-0.46.dev1280.el7ost, openstack-packstack-puppet 2014.1.1-0.46.dev1280.el7ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:0831
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 openstack-puppet-modules 2014.2.13-2.el7ost, openstack-packstack 2014.2-0.20.dev1467.g70c9655.el7ost, openstack-packstack-puppet 2014.2-0.20.dev1467.g70c9655.el7ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:0789

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

5.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-255 Credentials Management Errors

References

Sources

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