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CVE-2022-0675 json

Puppet Firewall Module May Leave Unmanaged Rules

published 4y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2022-15761

cvss
5.6
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 60%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In certain situations it is possible for an unmanaged rule to exist on the target system that has the same comment as the rule specified in the manifest. This could allow for unmanaged rules to exist on the target system and leave the system in an unsafe state.

Patch / fix

  • Puppet Firewall Module 3.4.0
  • puppet-module-puppetlabs-firewall Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.4.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-0675

  • puppet-firewall openstack 16.2, openstack 16.1 3.4.0-1.94f707cgit.el8ost

red hat advisories RHSA-2022:8869RHSA-2022:5116

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2022-0675 updated cvss 9.8

puppetlabs-firewall: unmanaged rules could leave system in an unsafe state via duplicate comment

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) puppet-firewall
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1 puppet-firewall 3.4.0-1.94f707cgit.el8ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:8869
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 puppet-firewall 3.4.0-1.94f707cgit.el8ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:5116

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

0.92% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 60% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Puppet Firewall Module

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-1289 Improper Validation of Unsafe Equivalence in Input
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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