Hi Eric,

Will a CVE be issued for this?

Thanks,

Trevor

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 12:47 AM, Eric Sorenson <
[email protected]> wrote:

> We've identified and are fixing a condition in puppet where the
> auto-generated
> CA private key is created with too-leinent permissions. We feel the
> exposure is
> pretty limited (it would require a local user account on the CA system, to
> discover and copy/modify the CA key before additional puppet commands run)
> but
> will be releasing patched versions which do not have the problem. I wanted
> to
> post this publicly so users could evaluate their own site and remediate if
> necessary, in advance of an upstream software release.
>
> You could be affected if:
> - you used puppet server or puppet master to automatically generate a CA
>   keypair and certificate and have NEVER restarted the process
> - you never subsequently ran a puppet agent, cert, or other subcommands
>   which use the certificate subsystem, on the host with the CA keypair.
>
> You will not be affected if:
> - you run Puppet Enterprise to initialize your CA
> - you have ever run 'puppet agent' or other 'puppet cert' commands as root
> on the host with the keypair.
> - you have ever restarted your puppet master/puppet server process. Ever.
> Really.
>
> The immediate fix is to either:
> - run `puppet agent` as root on the server which has the CA key
> - as root, `chmod 660 $(puppet master --configprint cadir)/ca_key.pem`
>
> A huge thank you/merci to Francois Lafont for reporting this issue.
>
> For more details, see https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-5274
>
> Eric Sorenson - [email protected] - freenode #puppet: eric0
> puppet platform // coffee // techno // bicycles
>



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