Insecure WinRM Authentication in Puppet Discovery Prior to 1.2.0

CVE-2018-11746 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

In Puppet Discovery prior to 1.2.0, when running Discovery against Windows hosts, WinRM connections can fall back to using basic auth over insecure channels if a HTTPS server is not available. This can expose the login credentials being used by Puppet Discovery.

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