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medium 6.6

CVE-2021-27017 json

Deserialization of untrusted data

published last yr. modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2021-13790

cvss
6.6
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 46%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Utilization of a module presented a security risk by allowing the deserialization of untrusted/user supplied data. This is resolved in the Puppet Agent 7.4.0 release.

Patch / fix

  • PuppetPu Puppet Agent 7.4.0

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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-2021-27017 updated cvss 6.6

puppet-agent: Deserialization of untrusted data

  • Red Hat Update Infrastructure 3 for Cloud Providers puppet
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Satellite 6 puppet-agent
    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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
last yr.

Exploit prediction

0.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 46% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • PuppetPu Puppet Agent

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

References

Sources

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