| Name | CVE-2021-27025 |
| Description | A flaw was discovered in Puppet Agent where the agent may silently ignore Augeas settings or may be vulnerable to a Denial of Service condition prior to the first 'pluginsync'. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1014772 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| puppet (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 3.7.2-4+deb8u1 | vulnerable |
| stretch | 4.8.2-5 | vulnerable |
| buster | 5.5.10-4 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 5.5.22-2 | vulnerable |
| puppet-agent (PTS) | bookworm | 7.23.0-1 | fixed |
| trixie | 8.4.0-2 | fixed |
| sid | 8.10.0-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| puppet | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | 1014772 |
| puppet-agent | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
Notes
- puppet-agent <not-affected> (Fixed before initial release, in 6.25.1)
[bullseye] - puppet <ignored> (Minor issue, too intrusive to backport)
[buster] - puppet <ignored> (Minor issue, too intrusive to backport)
[stretch] - puppet <ignored> (Minor issue, too intrusive to backport)
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2021-27025
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/da8b73edca174309a9bef5f62cd276933fe733e8 (6.25.1)
Limited impact, needs a malformed custom type provider
[jessie] - puppet <ignored> (Minor issue)