The MCollective aes_security plugin, as used in Puppet Enterprise before 3.3.0 and Mcollective before 2.5.3, does not properly validate new server certificates based on the CA certificate, which allows local users to establish unauthorized Mcollective connections via unspecified vectors related to a race condition.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2014-3251 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 is now in Production 1 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having Moderate security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/openshift.
NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
Base Score | 4.3 |
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Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
Access Vector | Network |
Access Complexity | Medium |
Authentication | None |
Confidentiality Impact | None |
Integrity Impact | Partial |
Availability Impact | None |
Find out more about Red Hat support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
Platform | Package | State |
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Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 | ruby193-mcollective | Will not fix |
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 1 | mcollective | Will not fix |