{"id":"CVE-2017-2298","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-2298","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T20:46:49.892Z","title":"A compromised server could use this to write a file to an arbitrary location on the client with the filename appended with the string \"_pub.pem\".","description":"The mcollective-sshkey-security plugin before 0.5.1 for Puppet uses a server-specified identifier as part of a path where a file is written. A compromised server could use this to write a file to an arbitrary location on the client with the filename appended with the string \"_pub.pem\".","published":"2017-06-30T20:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:15:55.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security@puppet.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-20"],"affected":["puppet/mcollective-sshkey-security"],"epss":{"score":0.01494,"percentile":0.7403,"date":"2026-10-27","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 (1.49%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/puppetlabs/mcollective-sshkey-security/blob/0.5.1/CHANGELOG.md","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@puppet.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/puppetlabs/mcollective-sshkey-security/commit/3388a3109f4fb1c69fa8505e991bf59ca20d19a2","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@puppet.com"},{"url":"https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2298","tags":["Mitigation","Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security@puppet.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/puppetlabs/mcollective-sshkey-security/blob/0.5.1/CHANGELOG.md","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/puppetlabs/mcollective-sshkey-security/commit/3388a3109f4fb1c69fa8505e991bf59ca20d19a2","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2298","tags":["Mitigation","Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-2298","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."}