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CVE-2017-10690
In previous versions of Puppet Agent it was possible for the agent to retrieve facts from an environment that it was not classified to…
Medium6.5EPSS 1.0%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- puppet
Description
In previous versions of Puppet Agent it was possible for the agent to retrieve facts from an environment that it was not classified to retrieve from. This was resolved in Puppet Agent 5.3.4, included in Puppet Enterprise 2017.3.4
Timeline
ID reserved
By puppet
- 8 months later
· 8 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.0% · top 37% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
- Privilege Escalation
- CWE-269 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-269 and its CVEs
Affected products
- affected 2017.3.x prior to 2017.3.4
- affected 5.x prior to 5.3.4
References (2)
- RHSA-2018:2927 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10690 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2017-10690)Record last updated .