CVE-2014-3248

Severity

62%

Complexity

19%

Confidentiality

165%

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Puppet Enterprise 2.8 before 2.8.7, Puppet before 2.7.26 and 3.x before 3.6.2, Facter 1.6.x and 2.x before 2.0.2, Hiera before 1.3.4, and Mcollective before 2.5.2, when running with Ruby 1.9.1 or earlier, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse file in the current working directory, as demonstrated using (1) rubygems/defaults/operating_system.rb, (2) Win32API.rb, (3) Win32API.so, (4) safe_yaml.rb, (5) safe_yaml/deep.rb, or (6) safe_yaml/deep.so; or (7) operatingsystem.rb, (8) operatingsystem.so, (9) osfamily.rb, or (10) osfamily.so in puppet/confine.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Puppet Enterprise 2.8 before 2.8.7, Puppet before 2.7.26 and 3.x before 3.6.2, Facter 1.6.x and 2.x before 2.0.2, Hiera before 1.3.4, and Mcollective before 2.5.2, when running with Ruby 1.9.1 or earlier, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse file in the current working directory, as demonstrated using (1) rubygems/defaults/operating_system.rb, (2) Win32API.rb, (3) Win32API.so, (4) safe_yaml.rb, (5) safe_yaml/deep.rb, or (6) safe_yaml/deep.so; or (7) operatingsystem.rb, (8) operatingsystem.so, (9) osfamily.rb, or (10) osfamily.so in puppet/confine.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

Puppet

First reported 10 years ago

2014-11-16 17:59:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-07-16 12:22:00

Affected Software

Puppet Facter 2.0.0 Release Candidate 1

2.0.0

Puppet Facter 2.0.0 Release Candidate 2

2.0.0

Puppet Facter 2.0.0 Release Candidate 3

2.0.0

Puppet Facter 2.0.0 Release Candidate 4

2.0.0

Puppet Facter 2.0.1

2.0.1

Puppet Facter 2.0.1 Release Candidate 1

2.0.1

Puppet Facter 2.0.1 Release Candidate 2

2.0.1

Puppet Facter 2.0.1 Release Candidate 3

2.0.1

Puppet Facter 2.0.1 Release Candidate 4

2.0.1

Puppet Marionette Collective

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