CVE-2017-2298: Puppet Mcollective-Sshkey-Security

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The mcollective-sshkey-security plugin before 0.5.1 for Puppet uses a server-specified identifier as part of a path where a file is written. A compromised server could use this to write a file to an arbitrary location on the client with the filename appended with the string "_pub.pem".

Affected products

• Puppet Mcollective-Sshkey-Security: up to and including 0.5.0

Published 2017-06-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.