{"id":"CVE-2017-2298","details":"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\".","modified":"2026-07-08T11:48:35.919849Z","published":"2017-06-30T20:29:00.217Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/puppetlabs/mcollective-sshkey-security/blob/0.5.1/CHANGELOG.md"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/puppetlabs/mcollective-sshkey-security/commit/3388a3109f4fb1c69fa8505e991bf59ca20d19a2"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2298"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/choria-legacy/mcollective-sshkey-security","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"8ccf15283b8881640a41505975f7334112da89ce"},{"fixed":"3388a3109f4fb1c69fa8505e991bf59ca20d19a2"}],"database_specific":{"cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:puppet:mcollective-sshkey-security:*:*:*:*:*:puppet:*:*","extracted_events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"0.5.0"}],"source":["CPE_RANGE","REFERENCES"]}}],"versions":["0.5.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-2298.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"}]}