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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, Fa

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.

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.2 EPSS 0.00074
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  • Public exploit or PoC is available
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0
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Affected Products & Versions

7
puppet facterall versions
puppetlabs facter>= 1.6.0 and <= 1.6.18
puppet marionette collective< 2.5.2
puppet hiera< 1.3.4
puppet< 2.7.26
puppet>= 3.6.0 and < 3.6.2
puppet enterprise>= 2.8.0 and < 2.8.7
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Affected Packages

4
Language-ecosystem packages (from OSV) tied to this CVE, with the version that fixes it - the dependency-level detail NVD doesn’t carry.
RubyGems facter MODERATE fixed in 1.7.6
RubyGems hiera MODERATE fixed in 1.3.4
RubyGems mcollective-client MODERATE fixed in 2.5.2
RubyGems puppet MODERATE fixed in 2.7.26
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Public Exploits & PoCs

1
pocrowediness.com · cve-2014-3248-a-little-problem-with-puppetrowediness.com
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Scoring & Timeline

6.2
MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published to NVD16 Nov 2014 · 05:59 PM
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Vendor Advisories

4
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10565-1
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10581-1
usnUSN-3308-1
suse-csafsuse-ru-2015_0696-1
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References & Sources

4
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3248Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/59197Technical Description
http://secunia.com/advisories/59200Technical Description
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68035Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
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