High severity · published Jul 20, 2021
CVE-2021-27021
A flaw was discovered in Puppet DB, this flaw results in an escalation of privileges which allows the user to delete tables via an SQL query
8.8
CVSS
1.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw was discovered in Puppet DB, this flaw results in an escalation of privileges which allows the user to delete tables via an SQL query.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.3% · higher than 69% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PU
Puppet · Puppet
before 6.23.0; 7.7.0 before 7.8.0 · source: NVD
PE
Puppet Enterprise · Puppet
before 2019.8.7; 2021.0.0 before 2021.2.0 · source: NVD
PU
Puppetdb · Puppet
before 6.17.0; 7.0.0 before 7.4.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-27021
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-27021
Vendor Advisory
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2021-27021/
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