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CVE-2023-1894

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) issue was discovered in Puppet Server 7.9.2 certificate validation.

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 2021.7.3, 2023.1.0, 7.11.0, 8.0.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) issue was discovered in Puppet Server 7.9.2 certificate validation. An issue related to specifically crafted certificate names significantly slowed down server operations.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Puppet Puppet Enterprise

    From 2021.7.1 · fixed in 2021.7.3; From 2023.0.0 · fixed in 2023.1.0

  • Puppet Puppet Server

    From 7.9.2 · fixed in 7.11.0; From 7.9.2 · fixed in 8.0.0

References 1

puppet.com