Vigil@nce - Puppet: file reading via URL Decoding
June 2016 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can modify the url encoding, to read a restricted web
page of Puppet, in order to obtain sensitive information.
– Impacted products: Puppet.
– Severity: 2/4.
– Creation date: 27/04/2016.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Puppet product offers a web service.
However, an attacker can bypass resource access restrictions
defined in auth.conf, by modifying the url encoding.
An attacker can therefore modify the url encoding, to read a
restricted web page of Puppet, in order to obtain sensitive
information.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Puppet-file-reading-via-URL-Decoding-19476