About “CFEngine”

A curated feed of “CFEngine”-related CVEs appears below. We currently track 20 CVEs for this tag (all time). In the last 365 days, 4 were published. Average CVSS is 6.0 (all time; 6.2 over 365d), and 30% are rated High/Critical (all time). Top CWEs (last 365 days): CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'), CWE-77 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection'), CWE-284 - Improper Access Control.

In our taxonomy this topic maps to a LOW impact class. Config management tools have broad privileges. Patch servers and agents, use least privilege, sign artifacts, and audit playbooks and modules. Use the filters below to sort by CVSS, risk and CWE. Each detail page highlights vendor advisories and mitigation tips.

Support & lifecycle: cfengine

This table shows recent release cycles and their projected end-of-life. Data source: endoflife.date.

CycleReleaseLatestEOLLTS
3.273.27.1-LTS
3.263.26.0 Expired
3.253.25.0 Expired
3.243.24.4LTS
3.233.23.0 Expired
3.223.22.0 Expired
3.213.21.8 ExpiredLTS
3.203.20.0 Expired
3.193.19.0 Expired
3.183.18.8 ExpiredLTS
3.173.17.0 Expired
3.163.16.0 Expired
3.153.15.7 ExpiredLTS

Maintained Soon (≤ 180 days) Expired

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CVEs tagged with this topic. Filters apply to the whole list (loaded from JSON).

CVSS ≥ 0.0
2026-06-02
Medium

CVE-2026-33553

Northern.tech CFEngine Enterprise 3.24.3 before 3.24.4 and 3.27.0 before 3.27.1 allows XSS.

2026-05-14
High

CVE-2026-24712

Northern.tech CFEngine Enterprise and Community before 3.21.8, 3.24.3, and 3.27.0 allows Command injection.

Medium

CVE-2026-24711

Northern.tech CFEngine Enterprise before 3.21.8, 3.24.3, and 3.27.0 has Incorrect Access Control.

Medium

CVE-2026-24710

Northern.tech CFEngine Enterprise before 3.21.8, 3.24.3, and 3.27.0 allows XSS.

2025-01-21
Medium

CVE-2024-55958

Northern.tech CFEngine Enterprise Mission Portal 3.24.0, 3.21.5, and below allows XSS. The fixed versions are 3.24.1 and 3.21.6.

2023-11-14
High

CVE-2023-45684

Northern.tech CFEngine Enterprise before 3.21.3 allows SQL Injection. The fixed versions are 3.18.6 and 3.21.3. The earliest affected version is 3.6.0. The issue is in the Mission Portal login page i…

2023-04-26
Medium

CVE-2023-26560

Northern.tech CFEngine Enterprise before 3.21.1 allows a subset of authenticated users to leverage the Scheduled Reports feature to read arbitrary files and potentially discover credentials.

2022-03-10
Medium

CVE-2021-44216

Northern.tech CFEngine Enterprise before 3.15.5 and 3.18.x before 3.18.1 has Insecure Permissions that may allow unauthorized local users to access the Apache and Mission Portal log files.

Medium

CVE-2021-44215

Northern.tech CFEngine Enterprise 3.15.4 before 3.15.5 has Insecure Permissions that may allow unauthorized local users to have an unspecified impact.

2021-10-27
Medium

CVE-2021-38379

The Hub in CFEngine Enterprise 3.6.7 through 3.18.0 has Insecure Permissions that allow local Information Disclosure.

Medium

CVE-2021-36756

CFEngine Enterprise 3.15.0 through 3.15.4 has Missing SSL Certificate Validation.

2020-04-16
Medium

CVE-2019-19394

Northern.tech CFEngine Enterprise before 3.10.7, 3.11.x and 3.12.x before 3.12.3, 3.13.x, and 3.14.x allows XSS. This is fixed in 3.10.7, 3.12.3, and 3.15.0.

2019-06-06
High

CVE-2019-9929

Northern.tech CFEngine Enterprise 3.12.1 has Insecure Permissions.

2005-10-05
Low

CVE-2005-2960

cfengine 1.6.5 and 2.1.16 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files used by vicf.in, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-3137.

Low

CVE-2005-3137

The (1) cfmailfilter and (2) cfcron.in files for cfengine 1.6.5 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-2960.

2004-08-09
Critical

CVE-2004-1701

Heap-based buffer overflow in the AuthenticationDialogue function in cfservd for Cfengine 2.0.0 to 2.1.7p1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long SAUTH command during RSA authen…

Medium

CVE-2004-1702

The AuthenticationDialogue function in cfservd for Cfengine 2.0.0 to 2.1.7p1 does not properly check the return value of the ReceiveTransaction function, which leads to a failed malloc call and trigg…

2003-11-17
High

CVE-2003-0849

Buffer overflow in net.c for cfengine 2.x before 2.0.8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain packets with modified length values, which is trusted by the ReceiveTransaction fu…

2000-12-19
Critical

CVE-2000-0947

Format string vulnerability in cfd daemon in GNU CFEngine before 1.6.0a11 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via format characters in the CAUTH command.

1999-02-16
Low

CVE-1999-0374

Debian GNU/Linux cfengine package is susceptible to a symlink attack.

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