CVE-2014-3251

Name	CVE-2014-3251
Description	The MCollective aes_security plugin, as used in Puppet Enterprise before 3.3.0 and Mcollective before 2.5.3, does not properly validate new server certificates based on the CA certificate, which allows local users to establish unauthorized Mcollective connections via unspecified vectors related to a race condition.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs	758701

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
mcollective (PTS)	bullseye	2.12.5+dfsg-1	fixed
	bookworm	2.12.5+dfsg-1.1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
mcollective	source	(unstable)	2.6.0+dfsg-1	low		758701

Notes

[wheezy] - mcollective <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
Mcollective are not configured to use the plugin and are not vulnerable by default.
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3251