Vulnerability in Puppet Facter
CVE-2014-3248
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.2 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.005 (43.0th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 43rd percentile — 43.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Puppet Facter — versions 2.0.0, 2.0.1
- Puppet Hiera
- Puppet Marionette Collective
- Puppet
- Puppet Enterprise
- Puppetlabs Facter
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3248 (Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/59197 (Technical Description, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/59200 (Technical Description, third-party-advisory)
- rowediness.com/2014/06/13/cve-2014-3248-a-little-problem-with-puppet/ (Technical Description, Exploit)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/68035 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)