CVE-2021-27025

MEDIUM6.5EPSS 0.53%

Silent Configuration Failure in Puppet Agent

Published: 12/2/2021Modified: 4/28/2026

Also known as:GHSA-q4g7-jrxv-67r9DEBIAN-CVE-2021-27025

Description

A flaw was discovered in Puppet Agent where the agent may silently ignore Augeas settings or may be vulnerable to a Denial of Service condition prior to the first 'pluginsync'.

Affected packages (2)

Debian/puppetfrom 0
RubyGems/puppet>= 7.0.0, < 7.12.1

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (6)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-27025
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-27025
PATCHhttps://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet
WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/puppet/CVE-2021-27025.yml
WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/62SELE7EKVKZL4GABFMVYMIIUZ7FPEF7
WEBhttps://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2021-27025