CVE-2014-3251

Description

From CVE.org

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.

Statement

Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 is now in Production 1 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having Moderate security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/openshift.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

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CVSS v2 Score Breakdown

Red HatNVDcve.org
Base Score4.34.4N/A
Attack VectorNetworkLocalN/A
Access ComplexityMediumMediumN/A
AuthenticationNoneNoneN/A
Confidentiality ImpactNonePartialN/A
Integrity ImpactPartialPartialN/A
Availability ImpactNonePartialN/A

Vector

Red Hat: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

NVD: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Understanding the Weakness (CWE)

CWE-348

Access Control

Technical Impact: Bypass Protection Mechanism; Gain Privileges or Assume Identity

An attacker could utilize the untrusted data source to bypass protection mechanisms and gain access to sensitive data.

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