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CVE-2018-11746
Puppet Discovery can leak authentication information
High8.6EPSS 1.4%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- puppet
Description
In Puppet Discovery prior to 1.2.0, when running Discovery against Windows hosts, WinRM connections can fall back to using basic auth over insecure channels if a HTTPS server is not available. This can expose the login credentials being used by Puppet Discovery.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| puppetCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | High8.6 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.4% · top 28% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.6.
Weakness
- Insufficiently Protected Credentials
- CWE-522 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-522 and its CVEs
Affected products
- affected unspecified – < 1.2.0
References (2)
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11746 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [pulsar-commits] 20201215 [GitHub] [pulsar] yanshuchong opened a new issue #8967: CVSS issue list (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2018-11746)Record last updated .