It was discovered that Puppet installed modules with world writable permissions. An attacker could use this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-10689)
It was discovered that Puppet could be used to force YAML deserialization in an unsafe manner. A remote attacker could use this vulnerability for remote code execution. (CVE-2017-2295)
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