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CVE-2014-3248

Published: Nov 16, 2014 | Modified: Apr 12, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
6.2 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
4.4 MODERATE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3248
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/17.html

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.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
FacterPuppet2.0.0-rc1 (including)2.0.0-rc1 (including)
FacterPuppet2.0.0-rc2 (including)2.0.0-rc2 (including)
FacterPuppet2.0.0-rc3 (including)2.0.0-rc3 (including)
FacterPuppet2.0.0-rc4 (including)2.0.0-rc4 (including)
FacterPuppet2.0.1 (including)2.0.1 (including)
FacterPuppet2.0.1-rc1 (including)2.0.1-rc1 (including)
FacterPuppet2.0.1-rc2 (including)2.0.1-rc2 (including)
FacterPuppet2.0.1-rc3 (including)2.0.1-rc3 (including)
FacterPuppet2.0.1-rc4 (including)2.0.1-rc4 (including)
FacterPuppetlabs1.6.0 (including)1.6.18 (including)
FacterUbuntuesm-infra-legacy/trusty*
FacterUbuntulucid*
FacterUbuntuprecise*
FacterUbuntusaucy*
FacterUbuntutrusty*
FacterUbuntutrusty/esm*
FacterUbuntuupstream*
McollectiveUbuntuartful*
McollectiveUbuntuprecise*
McollectiveUbuntusaucy*
McollectiveUbuntutrusty*
McollectiveUbuntuutopic*
McollectiveUbuntuvivid*
McollectiveUbuntuwily*
McollectiveUbuntuyakkety*
McollectiveUbuntuzesty*
PuppetUbuntuesm-infra-legacy/trusty*
PuppetUbuntulucid*
PuppetUbuntuprecise*
PuppetUbuntusaucy*
PuppetUbuntutrusty*
PuppetUbuntutrusty/esm*
PuppetUbuntuutopic*
PuppetUbuntuvivid*
Ruby-hieraUbuntusaucy*
Ruby-hieraUbuntutrusty*

References

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