Medium severity · published Jun 3, 2021
CVE-2021-3469
Foreman versions before 2.3.4 and before 2.4.0 is affected by an improper authorization handling flaw
5.4
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Foreman versions before 2.3.4 and before 2.4.0 is affected by an improper authorization handling flaw. An authenticated attacker can impersonate the foreman-proxy if product enable the Puppet Certificate authority (CA) to sign certificate requests that have subject alternative names (SANs). Foreman do not enable SANs by default and `allow-authorization-extensions` is set to `false` unless user change `/etc/puppetlabs/puppetserver/conf.d/ca.conf` configuration explicitly.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 26% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FO
Foreman · Theforeman
before 2.3.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3469
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-3469
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1943630
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