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CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2013-4956

Published: Aug 20, 2013 | Modified: Apr 11, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
3.6 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
3.7 MODERATE
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4956
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

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.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
PuppetPuppet2.7.2 (including)2.7.2 (including)
PuppetPuppet2.7.3 (including)2.7.3 (including)
PuppetPuppet2.7.4 (including)2.7.4 (including)
PuppetPuppet2.7.5 (including)2.7.5 (including)
PuppetPuppet2.7.6 (including)2.7.6 (including)
PuppetPuppet2.7.7 (including)2.7.7 (including)
PuppetPuppet2.7.8 (including)2.7.8 (including)
PuppetPuppet2.7.9 (including)2.7.9 (including)
PuppetPuppet2.7.10 (including)2.7.10 (including)
PuppetPuppet2.7.11 (including)2.7.11 (including)
PuppetPuppet2.7.12 (including)2.7.12 (including)
PuppetPuppet2.7.13 (including)2.7.13 (including)
PuppetPuppet2.7.14 (including)2.7.14 (including)
PuppetPuppet2.7.16 (including)2.7.16 (including)
PuppetPuppet2.7.17 (including)2.7.17 (including)
PuppetPuppet2.7.18 (including)2.7.18 (including)
PuppetPuppet2.7.21 (including)2.7.21 (including)
PuppetPuppet2.7.22 (including)2.7.22 (including)
PuppetPuppet3.2.1 (including)3.2.1 (including)
PuppetPuppet3.2.2 (including)3.2.2 (including)
PuppetPuppet3.2.3 (including)3.2.3 (including)
Puppet_enterprisePuppet2.8.0 (including)2.8.0 (including)
Puppet_enterprisePuppet2.8.1 (including)2.8.1 (including)
Puppet_enterprisePuppet2.8.2 (including)2.8.2 (including)
Puppet_enterprisePuppet3.0.0 (including)3.0.0 (including)
PuppetPuppetlabs2.7.0 (including)2.7.0 (including)
PuppetPuppetlabs2.7.1 (including)2.7.1 (including)
PuppetPuppetlabs3.2.0 (including)3.2.0 (including)
OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6RedHatfacter-0:1.6.6-1.el6_4*
OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6RedHathiera-0:1.0.0-3.el6_4*
OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6RedHatpuppet-0:3.2.4-1.el6_4*
OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6RedHatruby-augeas-0:0.4.1-1.el6_4*
OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6RedHatruby-shadow-0:1.4.1-13.el6_4*
OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6RedHatruby193-puppet-0:3.1.1-11.1.el6ost*
PuppetUbuntudevel*
PuppetUbuntulucid*
PuppetUbuntuprecise*
PuppetUbuntuquantal*
PuppetUbunturaring*
PuppetUbuntuupstream*

References

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