vulnerability
FreeBSD: VID-77687355-52aa-11ea-b115-643150d3111d (CVE-2020-7942): puppet6 -- Arbitrary Catalog Retrieval
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N) | Mar 23, 2020 | Mar 24, 2020 | Dec 10, 2025 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Mar 23, 2020
Added
Mar 24, 2020
Modified
Dec 10, 2025
Description
Puppetlabs reports: Previously, Puppet operated on a model that a node with a valid certificate was entitled to all information in the system and that a compromised certificate allowed access to everything in the infrastructure. When a node's catalog falls back to the `default` node, the catalog can be retrieved for a different node by modifying facts for the Puppet run. This issue can be mitigated by setting `strict_hostname_checking = true` in `puppet.conf` on your Puppet master. Puppet 6.13.0 changes the default behavior for strict_hostname_checking from false to true. It is recommended that Puppet Open Source and Puppet Enterprise users that are not upgrading still set strict_hostname_checking to true to ensure secure behavior.
Solution
freebsd-upgrade-package-puppet6
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