CVE-2017-2292
Versions of MCollective prior to 2.10.4 deserialized YAML from agents without calling safe_load, allowing the potential for arbitrary code…
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- puppet
Description
Versions of MCollective prior to 2.10.4 deserialized YAML from agents without calling safe_load, allowing the potential for arbitrary code execution on the server. The fix for this is to call YAML.safe_load on input. This has been tested in all Puppet-supplied MCollective plugins, but there is a chance that third-party plugins could rely on this insecure behavior.
Timeline
ID reserved
By puppet
- 7 months later
· 7 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 | Critical9.0 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 18% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.0.
Weakness
- Remote Code Execution Via YAML Deserialization
- CWE-502 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-502 and its CVEs
Affected products
Puppet · mcollective, Puppet, Puppet Enterprise
- affected Puppet Enterprise prior to 2016.4.5, Puppet Enterprise 2016.5.x, Puppet Enterprise 2017.1.x, Puppet Agent prior to 1.10.1
References (2)
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2292 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-201709-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_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-2017-2292)Record last updated .