Vulnerabilities / CVE-2021-27023

critical

CVE-2021-27023

puppet: unsafe HTTP redirect

Published Modified
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GHSA6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Red Hat9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (high), GHSA (medium), Ruby Advisory DB (medium).

Description

A flaw was discovered in Puppet Agent and Puppet Server that may result in a leak of HTTP credentials when following HTTP redirects to a different host. This is similar to CVE-2018-1000007

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 10puppetno fix listed
debian 11puppetno fix listed
debian 9puppetno fix listed
Red Hatpuppet-agentno fix listed
rubygems::GitHub Security Advisory RubyGemspuppet7.12.1, 6.25.1
rubygems::Ruby Advisory Databasepuppet~> 6.25.1, >= 7.12.1

References

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