CVE-2021-27025 (GCVE-0-2021-27025)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-11-18 14:30 – Updated: 2024-08-03 20:40
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Summary
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'.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • Silent Configuration Failure
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Puppet Enterprise, Puppet Agent Affected: - Puppet Enterprise prior to 2019.8.9, Puppet Enterprise prior to 2021.4.0, Puppet Agent prior to 6.25.1, Puppet Agent prior to 7.12.1, Puppet Agent 5.5.x
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