Vulnerabilities > CVE-2015-8470 - Information Exposure vulnerability in Puppet Enterprise
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
The console in Puppet Enterprise 3.7.x, 3.8.x, and 2015.2.x does not set the secure flag for the JSESSIONID cookie in an HTTPS session, which makes it easier for remote attackers to capture this cookie by intercepting its transmission within an HTTP session.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Subverting Environment Variable Values The attacker directly or indirectly modifies environment variables used by or controlling the target software. The attacker's goal is to cause the target software to deviate from its expected operation in a manner that benefits the attacker.
- Footprinting An attacker engages in probing and exploration activity to identify constituents and properties of the target. Footprinting is a general term to describe a variety of information gathering techniques, often used by attackers in preparation for some attack. It consists of using tools to learn as much as possible about the composition, configuration, and security mechanisms of the targeted application, system or network. Information that might be collected during a footprinting effort could include open ports, applications and their versions, network topology, and similar information. While footprinting is not intended to be damaging (although certain activities, such as network scans, can sometimes cause disruptions to vulnerable applications inadvertently) it may often pave the way for more damaging attacks.
- Exploiting Trust in Client (aka Make the Client Invisible) An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities in client/server communication channel authentication and data integrity. It leverages the implicit trust a server places in the client, or more importantly, that which the server believes is the client. An attacker executes this type of attack by placing themselves in the communication channel between client and server such that communication directly to the server is possible where the server believes it is communicating only with a valid client. There are numerous variations of this type of attack.
- Browser Fingerprinting An attacker carefully crafts small snippets of Java Script to efficiently detect the type of browser the potential victim is using. Many web-based attacks need prior knowledge of the web browser including the version of browser to ensure successful exploitation of a vulnerability. Having this knowledge allows an attacker to target the victim with attacks that specifically exploit known or zero day weaknesses in the type and version of the browser used by the victim. Automating this process via Java Script as a part of the same delivery system used to exploit the browser is considered more efficient as the attacker can supply a browser fingerprinting method and integrate it with exploit code, all contained in Java Script and in response to the same web page request by the browser.
- Session Credential Falsification through Prediction This attack targets predictable session ID in order to gain privileges. The attacker can predict the session ID used during a transaction to perform spoofing and session hijacking.
Nessus
NASL family CGI abuses NASL id PUPPET_ENTERPRISE_2015_3_0.NASL description According to its self-reported version number, the Puppet install on the remote host is affected by an information disclosure vulnerability. An unauthenticated, unpriviledged remote attacker can cause a user to send jsessionid cookies in plain text, allowing the attacker the ability to potentially hijack the session. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 129750 published 2019-10-09 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/129750 title Puppet Enterprise < 2015.3.0 Information Disclosure Vulnerability code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(129750); script_version("1.2"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/10/17 14:31:04"); script_cve_id("CVE-2015-8470"); script_name(english:"Puppet Enterprise < 2015.3.0 Information Disclosure Vulnerability"); script_summary(english:"Checks the Puppet Enterprise version."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value: "A web application running on the remote host is affected by a code execution vulnerability."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value: "According to its self-reported version number, the Puppet install on the remote host is affected by an information disclosure vulnerability. An unauthenticated, unpriviledged remote attacker can cause a user to send jsessionid cookies in plain text, allowing the attacker the ability to potentially hijack the session."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8470"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value: "Upgrade to Puppet Enterprise version 2015.3.0 or later."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2015-8470"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2015/12/08"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/12/08"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/10/09"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:puppetlabs:puppet"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_family(english:"CGI abuses"); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_dependencies("puppet_enterprise_console_detect.nasl", "puppet_rest_detect.nasl"); script_require_keys("puppet/rest_port", "installed_sw/puppet_enterprise_console"); exit(0); } include('vcf.inc'); include('http.inc'); app = 'Puppet REST API'; # we get both enterprise and open-source versions from the api... # Make sure we detected a version port = get_kb_item_or_exit('puppet/rest_port'); ver = get_kb_item_or_exit('puppet/' + port + '/version'); # Make sure the Console service is running get_kb_item_or_exit('installed_sw/puppet_enterprise_console'); app_info = vcf::get_app_info(app:app, port:port, webapp:TRUE, kb_ver: 'puppet/' + port + '/version'); # version info obtained from https://puppet.com/docs/pe/2016.2/overview_version_table.html constraints = [ {"min_version" : "3.7.0", "fixed_version" : "4.3.1", "fixed_display" : "Puppet Enterprise (2015.3.0)"} ]; vcf::check_version_and_report(app_info:app_info, constraints:constraints, severity:SECURITY_WARNING);NASL family CGI abuses NASL id PUPPET_ENTERPRISE_2015_3_1.NASL description According to its self-reported version number, the Puppet install on the remote host is affected by an information disclosure vulnerability. An unauthenticated, unpriviledged remote attacker can cause a user to send jsessionid cookies in plain text, allowing the attacker the ability to potentially hijack the session. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 129751 published 2019-10-09 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/129751 title Puppet Enterprise < 2015.3.1 Information Disclosure Vulnerability code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(129751); script_version("1.2"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/10/17 14:31:04"); script_cve_id("CVE-2015-8470"); script_name(english:"Puppet Enterprise < 2015.3.1 Information Disclosure Vulnerability"); script_summary(english:"Checks the Puppet Enterprise version."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value: "A web application running on the remote host is affected by a code execution vulnerability."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value: "According to its self-reported version number, the Puppet install on the remote host is affected by an information disclosure vulnerability. An unauthenticated, unpriviledged remote attacker can cause a user to send jsessionid cookies in plain text, allowing the attacker the ability to potentially hijack the session."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8470"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value: "Upgrade to Puppet Enterprise version 2015.3.0 or later."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2015-8470"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2015/12/08"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/12/08"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/10/09"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:puppetlabs:puppet"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_family(english:"CGI abuses"); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_dependencies("puppet_enterprise_console_detect.nasl", "puppet_rest_detect.nasl"); script_require_keys("puppet/rest_port", "installed_sw/puppet_enterprise_console"); exit(0); } include('vcf.inc'); include('http.inc'); app = 'Puppet REST API'; # we get both enterprise and open-source versions from the api... # Make sure we detected a version port = get_kb_item_or_exit('puppet/rest_port'); ver = get_kb_item_or_exit('puppet/' + port + '/version'); # Make sure the Console service is running get_kb_item_or_exit('installed_sw/puppet_enterprise_console'); app_info = vcf::get_app_info(app:app, port:port, webapp:TRUE, kb_ver: 'puppet/' + port + '/version'); # version info obtained from https://puppet.com/docs/pe/2016.2/overview_version_table.html constraints = [ {"min_version" : "3.7.0", "fixed_version" : "4.3.1", "fixed_display" : "Puppet Enterprise (2015.3.1)"} ]; vcf::check_version_and_report(app_info:app_info, constraints:constraints, severity:SECURITY_WARNING);