Security advisory

{
  "id": "f192b79997218bdbd0ae164f0b82dd3b743fba7c2ab92401aff44bbfde1e0602",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-2298",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-2298",
    "summary": "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\".",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-2298",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2017-2298",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2017-2298"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/choria-legacy/mcollective-sshkey-security",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "8ccf15283b8881640a41505975f7334112da89ce"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "3388a3109f4fb1c69fa8505e991bf59ca20d19a2"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:puppet:mcollective-sshkey-security:*:*:*:*:*:puppet:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "0.5.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "3388a3109f4fb1c69fa8505e991bf59ca20d19a2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "0.5.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-2298.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:50:32.333389567Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/puppetlabs/mcollective-sshkey-security/blob/0.5.1/CHANGELOG.md",
        "https://github.com/puppetlabs/mcollective-sshkey-security/commit/3388a3109f4fb1c69fa8505e991bf59ca20d19a2",
        "https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2298"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-2298",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 381824,
  "published_at": "2017-06-30T20:29:00.217+00:00"
}