Vulnerability in Puppet
CVE-2012-1053
The change_user method in the SUIDManager (lib/puppet/util/suidmanager.rb) in Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.14 and 2.7.x before 2.7.11, and Puppet Enterprise (PE) Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x before 2.0.3 does not properly manage group privileges, which allows local users to gain privileges via vectors related to (1) the change_user not dropping supplementary groups in certain conditions, (2) changes to the eguid without associated changes to the egid, or (3) the addition of the real gid to supplementary groups.
EPSS: 0.004 (31.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Puppet — versions 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2
- Puppet Puppet_enterprise — versions 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2
- Puppetlabs Puppet — versions 2.7.0, 2.7.1
- Puppetlabs Puppet_enterprise_users — versions 1.0, 1.1
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)