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CVE-2021-3469

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.4 Published: 2021-06-03 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

Foreman versions before 2.3.4 and before 2.4.0 is affected by an improper authorization handling flaw. An authenticated attacker can impersonate the foreman-proxy if product enable the Puppet Certificate authority (CA) to sign certificate requests that have subject alternative names (SANs). Foreman do not enable SANs by default and `allow-authorization-extensions` is set to `false` unless user change `/etc/puppetlabs/puppetserver/conf.d/ca.conf` configuration explicitly.

Affected Platforms

Theforeman Foreman

Weakness Type

CWE-863, CWE-863

References