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medium 5.5

CVE-2017-10689 json

Tarball permission preservation in puppet

published 2018-02-09 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-vw22-465p-8j5w , EUVD-2022-5438

cvss
5.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 29%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In previous versions of Puppet Agent it was possible to install a module with world writable permissions. Puppet Agent 5.3.4 and 1.10.10 included a fix to this vulnerability.

Patch / fix

  • rubygems puppet 4.10.10, 5.3.4
  • puppet puppet 1.10.10, 5.3.4
  • puppet puppet_enterprise 2016.4.10, 2017.3.4
  • puppet Debian 11 5.4.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-10689

  • puppet Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 3.4.3-1ubuntu1.3
  • puppet Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 3.8.5-2ubuntu0.1+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-10689

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • v8 satellite capsule 6.4 1:3.14.5.10-19.el7sat
  • tfm satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 4.0-3.el7sat
  • kobo satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 0.5.1-1.el7sat
  • pulp satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 2.16.4.1-1.el7sat
  • gofer satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 2.12.1-1.el7sat
  • ostree satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 2017.1-2.atomic.el7
  • SOAPpy satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 0.11.6-17.el7
  • foreman satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 1.18.0.37-1.el7sat

red hat advisories RHSA-2018:2927

  • rubygem-puppet SLE Module for Advanced Systems Management 12 4.8.1-32.3.1
  • puppet SLED 12 SP3, SLED 12 SP2, SLE Module for Advanced Systems Management 12 3.8.5-15.9.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:0602-1SUSE-SU-2018:0571-1

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-2017-10689 updated cvss 2.8

puppet: Unpacking of tarballs in tar/mini.rb can create files with insecure permissions

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 (Juno) puppet Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo) puppet, puppet-server Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty) puppet, puppet-server Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka) puppet, puppet-server Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) puppet, puppet-server Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 (Ocata) puppet
    +3 more products
    Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 (Pike) puppet, puppet-server Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) puppet, puppet-server Red Hat Satellite 6 puppet, puppet-server
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.4 tfm 4.0-3.el7sat, kobo 0.5.1-1.el7sat, SOAPpy 0.11.6-17.el7, candlepin 2.4.8-1.el7, gofer 2.12.1-1.el7sat, liquibase 3.1.0-1.el7, +383 more Red Hat Satellite Capsule 6.4 tfm 4.0-3.el7sat, kobo 0.5.1-1.el7sat, SOAPpy 0.11.6-17.el7, gofer 2.12.1-1.el7sat, katello 3.7.0-8.el7sat, pulp 2.16.4.1-1.el7sat, +217 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2927

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

0.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 29% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.0 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
rubygems puppet
<4.10.10
>=5.0.0, <5.3.4
4.10.10
5.3.4

Affected products

  • Puppet Puppet Enterprise
  • Puppet Puppet Agent

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

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.