Vulnerability in Puppet Enterprise
CVE-2013-4969
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 2.1 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (34.6th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 35th percentile — 34.6% 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 Enterprise
- Puppetlabs Puppet
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 12.04, 12.10, 13.04
- Debian Linux — versions 6.0, 7.0, 8.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2831 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/56254 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/56253 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4969 (Vendor Advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2077-1 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)