Vulnerability in Puppet
CVE-2013-4956
Puppet Module Tool (PMT), as used in Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.23 and 3.2.x before 3.2.4, and Puppet Enterprise 2.8.x before 2.8.3 and 3.0.x before 3.0.1, installs modules with weak permissions if those permissions were used when the modules were originally built, which might allow local users to read or modify those modules depending on the original permissions.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 3.6 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (29.5th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 29th percentile — 29.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Puppet — versions 2.7.2, 2.7.3, 2.7.4
- Puppet Enterprise — versions 2.8.0, 2.8.1, 2.8.2
- Puppetlabs Puppet — versions 2.7.0, 2.7.1, 3.2.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2761 (vendor-advisory)
- puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4956/ (Vendor Advisory)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1284.html (vendor-advisory)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1283.html (vendor-advisory)