CVE-2013-4969 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

Puppet before 3.3.3 and 3.4 before 3.4.1 and Puppet Enterprise (PE) before 2.8.4 and 3.1 before 3.1.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on unspecified files.

Puppet before 3.3.3 and 3.4 before 3.4.1 and Puppet Enterprise (PE) before 2.8.4 and 3.1 before 3.1.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on unspecified files.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 11 years ago

2014-01-07 18:55:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-07-10 18:02:00

Affected Software

Debian GNU/Linux 6.0

6.0

Debian Linux 7.0

7.0

Debian Linux 8.0 (Jessie)

8.0

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS

12.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.10

12.10

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 13.04

13.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 13.10

13.10

References

http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4969

Vendor Advisory

56253

Vendor Advisory

56254

Vendor Advisory

DSA-2831

Third Party Advisory

USN-2077-1

Third Party Advisory

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