CVE-2017-2292

Publication date 30 June 2017

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.0 · Critical

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
mcollective 26.04 LTS resolute Not in release
25.10 questing Not in release
25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
21.10 impish
Not affected
21.04 hirsute
Not affected
20.10 groovy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
19.10 eoan
Not affected
19.04 disco
Not affected
18.10 cosmic
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Vulnerable
17.10 artful Ignored end of life
17.04 zesty Ignored end of life
16.10 yakkety Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Vulnerable
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.0 · Critical
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Scope Changed
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact Low
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L

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