{"id":"CVE-2014-3251","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2014-3251","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T20:53:29.256Z","title":"The MCollective aes_security plugin, as used in Puppet Enterprise before 3.3.0 and Mcollective before 2.5.3, does not properly validate new server certificates based on the CA certificate, which allows local users to establish unauthorized Mcollective…","description":"The MCollective aes_security plugin, as used in Puppet Enterprise before 3.3.0 and Mcollective before 2.5.3, does not properly validate new server certificates based on the CA certificate, which allows local users to establish unauthorized Mcollective connections via unspecified vectors related to a race condition.","published":"2014-08-12T23:55:04.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:07:51.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":4.4,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-362"],"affected":["puppet/puppet enterprise","puppetlabs/mcollective"],"epss":{"score":0.00175,"percentile":0.06937,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.18%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3251","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/59356","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/60066","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/109257","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3251","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/59356","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/60066","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/109257","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3251","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}