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MEDIUM6.5

GHSA-gqvf-892r-vjm5

Improper Certificate Validation in Puppet

Quick fix

GHSA-gqvf-892r-vjm5 — puppet: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

bundle update puppet

Details

Previously, Puppet operated on the 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.

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Affected packages

RubyGems/puppet
Introduced in: 6.0.0Fixed in: 6.13.0
Fixbundle update puppet
RubyGems/puppet
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 5.5.19
Fixbundle update puppet

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