{"id":"CVE-2017-2290","details":"On Windows installations of the mcollective-puppet-agent plugin, version 1.12.0, a non-administrator user can create an executable that will be executed with administrator privileges on the next \"mco puppet\" run. Puppet Enterprise users are not affected. This is resolved in mcollective-puppet-agent 1.12.1.","modified":"2026-07-08T11:35:50.974517Z","published":"2017-03-03T15:59:00.647Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96583"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2290"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/puppetlabs/mcollective-puppet-agent","events":[{"introduced":"b6d6fcaf49c24ec01637340d3f98d893d89ba12f"},{"last_affected":"b6d6fcaf49c24ec01637340d3f98d893d89ba12f"}],"database_specific":{"cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:puppet:mcollective-puppet-agent:1.12.0:*:*:*:*:puppet:*:*","extracted_events":[{"introduced":"1.12.0"},{"last_affected":"1.12.0"}],"source":"CPE_STRING"}}],"versions":["1.12.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-2290.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}