Security advisory

{
  "id": "33a673fdc2286ec025030a2f7a86363edd078adc25e0cfe70b6d5bb0862d09c1",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-2290",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-2290",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-2290",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2017-2290",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2017-2290"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/puppetlabs/mcollective-puppet-agent",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "b6d6fcaf49c24ec01637340d3f98d893d89ba12f"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "b6d6fcaf49c24ec01637340d3f98d893d89ba12f"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:puppet:mcollective-puppet-agent:1.12.0:*:*:*:*:puppet:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "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"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:54.818416696Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2290"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-2290",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 438280,
  "published_at": "2017-03-03T15:59:00.647+00:00"
}