VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-11746

CVSS score8.6 HIGH
EPSS probability1.38%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-07-03
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-522: Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Primary references