CVE-2014-3250

Publication date 11 December 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

The default vhost configuration file in Puppet before 3.6.2 does not include the SSLCARevocationCheck directive, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a revoked certificate when a Puppet master runs with Apache 2.4.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
puppet	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	15.10 wily	Not affected
	15.04 vivid	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected

Notes

sbeattie

triggered under apache 2.4 only

mdeslaur

later Debian packages don't enable SSLCARevocationCheck by default, just simply add it as a commented-out example to the config file. We are not going to fix this in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. If this is required, it can simply be added to the local configuration.

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
puppet	Upstream: b02af7e Upstream: bcc6dc3 Upstream: f4b479f

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N