Vulnerability CVE-2014-3248


Published: 2014-11-16

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.

Type:

CWE-17

(Code)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.2/10
10/10
1.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
High
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Puppetlabs -> Facter 
Puppetlabs -> Hiera 
Puppetlabs -> Marionette-collective 
Puppetlabs -> Puppet 
Puppet -> Puppet enterprise 
Puppet -> Hiera 
Puppet -> Marionette collective 
Puppet -> Facter 
Puppet -> Puppet 

 References:
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3248
http://rowediness.com/2014/06/13/cve-2014-3248-a-little-problem-with-puppet/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68035

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