CVE-2013-1398: Puppet Enterprise

High severity, CVSS 8.5. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The pe_mcollective module in Puppet Enterprise (PE) before 2.7.1 does not properly restrict access to a catalog of private SSL keys, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information and gain privileges by leveraging root access to a node, related to the master role.

Affected products

• Puppet Puppet Enterprise: up to and including 2.7.0; version 2.0.0 only; version 2.5.1 only; version 2.5.2 only
• Puppetlabs Puppet: version 2.5.0 only; version 2.6.0 only

Published 2014-03-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.