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CVE-2014-3248

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-17 Code Errors
Publication date:
16/11/2014
Last modified:
12/04/2025

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.20 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
6.20
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:facter:2.0.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:facter:2.0.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:facter:2.0.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:facter:2.0.0:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:facter:2.0.1:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:facter:2.0.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:facter:2.0.1:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:facter:2.0.1:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:facter:2.0.1:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:puppetlabs:facter:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1.6.0 (including) 1.6.18 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:marionette_collective:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.5.2 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:hiera:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1.3.4 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.7.26 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 3.6.0 (including) 3.6.2 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.8.0 (including) 2.8.7 (excluding)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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