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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2021-27025

Severity Medium
Score 6.5/10

Summary

A flaw was discovered in Puppet Agent in versions prior to 6.25.1 and 7.0.x prior to 7.12.1 where the agent may silently ignore Augeas settings or may be vulnerable to a Denial of Service condition prior to the first 'pluginsync'.

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  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
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  • LOW
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  • HIGH

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published