CVE catalog
CVE-2014-3251
mcollective: CVE-2014-3251
- Severity
- Medium
- Published
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 0.18% · Oct 25, 2026
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.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | mcollective | bookworm | 2.12.5+dfsg-1.1 | fixed |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | mcollective | source | bookworm | 2.6.0+dfsg-1 | low | Not reported | [758701] |
OpenFactory catalog packages
[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]
- [mcollective]Fixed
Details (2)
2.12.5+dfsg-1.1· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
2.6.0+dfsg-1dsa · mcollective · debian · bookworm; dsa · mcollective · debian · 12
2.12.5+dfsg-1.1· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
2.6.0+dfsg-1dsa · mcollective · debian · bookworm; dsa · mcollective · debian · 12
- [mcollective-client]Fixed
Source package: [mcollective]
Details (2)
2.12.5+dfsg-1.1· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
2.6.0+dfsg-1dsa · mcollective · debian · bookworm; dsa · mcollective · debian · 12
2.12.5+dfsg-1.1· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
2.6.0+dfsg-1dsa · mcollective · debian · bookworm; dsa · mcollective · debian · 12
- [mcollective-common]Fixed
Source package: [mcollective]
Details (2)
2.12.5+dfsg-1.1· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
2.6.0+dfsg-1dsa · mcollective · debian · bookworm; dsa · mcollective · debian · 12
2.12.5+dfsg-1.1· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
2.6.0+dfsg-1dsa · mcollective · debian · bookworm; dsa · mcollective · debian · 12
- [mcollective-doc]Fixed
Source package: [mcollective]
Details (2)
2.12.5+dfsg-1.1· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
2.6.0+dfsg-1dsa · mcollective · debian · bookworm; dsa · mcollective · debian · 12
2.12.5+dfsg-1.1· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
2.6.0+dfsg-1dsa · mcollective · debian · bookworm; dsa · mcollective · debian · 12
Observed: