CVE-2017-2299: Puppet Puppetlabs-Apache

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Versions of the puppetlabs-apache module prior to 1.11.1 and 2.1.0 make it very easy to accidentally misconfigure TLS trust. If you specify the `ssl_ca` parameter but do not specify the `ssl_certs_dir` parameter, a default will be provided for the `ssl_certs_dir` that will trust certificates from any of the system-trusted certificate authorities. This did not affect FreeBSD.

Affected products

• Puppet Puppetlabs-Apache: version 0.0.4 only; version 0.4.0 only; version 0.6.0 only; version 0.7.0 only; version 0.8.0 only; version 0.8.1 only; …

Published 2017-09-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.