CVE-2023-1894 (GCVE-0-2023-1894)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-05-04 22:13 – Updated: 2025-01-29 17:55
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-01-29 17:55 UTC
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puppet | Puppet Enterprise |
Affected:
2021.7.1 , < 2021.7.3
(semver)
Affected: 2023.0.0 , < 2023.1.0 (semver) |
guessed | |
| Puppet | Puppet Server |
Affected:
7.9.2 , < 7.11.0
(semver)
Affected: 7.9.2 , < 8.0.0 (semver) |
guessed |
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