CVE-2018-11746
Puppet Discovery can leak authentication information
HIGH
8.6
CVSS Score
Published: July 3, 2018 at 01:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:36 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorDiscovery
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Severity
HIGH8.6
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
Description
In Puppet Discovery prior to 1.2.0, when running Discovery against Windows hosts, WinRM connections can fall back to using basic auth over insecure channels if a HTTPS server is not available. This can expose the login credentials being used by Puppet Discovery.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (2)
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd0e44e8ef71eeaaa3cf3d1b8b41eb25894372e2995ec908ce7624d26%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3Ex_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11746CVSS
8.6HIGHpuppet
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- CHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- NONE
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-522
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