CVE-2017-10689

MEDIUM5.5EPSS 0.09%

Tarball permission preservation in puppet

Published: 5/13/2022Modified: 4/28/2026

Also known as:GHSA-vw22-465p-8j5wDEBIAN-CVE-2017-10689

Description

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.

Affected packages (2)

Debian/puppetfrom 0, < 5.4.0-1
RubyGems/puppetfrom 0, < 4.10.10

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM5.5	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

References (10)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-10689
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-10689
PATCHhttps://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet
WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927
WEBhttps://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/17d9e02da3882e44c1876e2805cf9708481715ee
WEBhttps://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/2f1047f85e22cde139a421bc25d371f2ffc92cb1
WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/puppet/CVE-2017-10689.yml
WEBhttps://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10689
WEBhttps://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-7866
WEBhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3567-1