CVE-2013-4963
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedMultiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in Puppet Enterprise (PE) before 3.0.1 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that deleting a (1) report, (2) group, or (3) class or possibly have other unspecified impact.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceMultiple CSRF vulnerabilities in Puppet Enterprise before 3.0.1 allow remote attackers to hijack authenticated user sessions to delete reports, groups, or classes by tricking users into visiting malicious web pages while logged into PE.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data<= 3.0.0= 1.0= 1.1= 1.2.0= 2.0.0= 2.0.1= 2.0.2= 2.0.3= 2.5.1= 2.5.2= 2.8.0= 2.8.1CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- M
- Authentication
- None
- Confidentiality
- Partial
- Integrity
- Partial
- Availability
- Partial
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify if Puppet Enterprise is installedRun 'puppet --version' and check if the product is Enterprise. On Linux, also check for /opt/puppet or /etc/puppetlabs enterprise directories.Affected if Running open-source Puppet (puppet) instead of Puppet Enterprise (puppet-enterprise)
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Determine the Puppet Enterprise versionRun 'puppet-enterprise --version' or check /opt/puppet/bin/puppet-enterprise --version. Alternatively, look at the PE console login page footer which displays the version.Affected if Version matches 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.0, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.8.0, 2.8.1, or any version 3.0.0 or earlier
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Verify the PE console is accessibleCheck if the web console service is running: 'service pe-console-services status' or check if port 443 or 3000 is listening on the console server.Affected if The PE console is exposed and users authenticate to it
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Confirm the CSRF protection statusInspect HTTP requests when logged into the console. In vulnerable versions, state-changing actions (delete report, delete group, delete class) do not require a CSRF token in the request.Affected if State-changing operations in the console do not send a CSRF token with the request
If Puppet Enterprise version 3.0.0 or earlier is running with the web console enabled and accessible to users, the environment is vulnerable to CSRF attacks allowing deletion of reports, groups, or classes.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataUpgrade Puppet Enterprise to version 3.0.1 or later which includes proper CSRF token validation for state-changing operations.
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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