CVE-2017-2293: Puppet Enterprise

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Versions of Puppet Enterprise prior to 2016.4.5 or 2017.2.1 shipped with an MCollective configuration that allowed the package plugin to install or remove arbitrary packages on all managed agents. This release adds default configuration to not allow these actions. Customers who rely on this functionality can change this policy.

Affected products

• Puppet Puppet Enterprise: before 2016.4.5 (fixed in 2016.4.5); version 2016.5.1 only; version 2016.5.2 only; version 2017.1.0 only; version 2017.1.1 only

Published 2018-02-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.