CVE-2014-3251: Puppet Enterprise

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The MCollective aes_security plugin, as used in Puppet Enterprise before 3.3.0 and Mcollective before 2.5.3, does not properly validate new server certificates based on the CA certificate, which allows local users to establish unauthorized Mcollective connections via unspecified vectors related to a race condition.

Affected products

• Puppet Puppet Enterprise: up to and including 3.2.0
• Puppetlabs Mcollective: affected versions not specified

Published 2014-08-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.