Puppet arbitrary files overwrite via a symlink attack
Published: May 02, 2022
SECURITY IDENTIFIERS
- CVE: CVE-2010-0156 (NVD)
- GHSA: GHSA-vrh7-99jh-3fmm
- Vendor Advisory: https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2010-0156
GEM
SEVERITY
CVSS v2.0: 3.3 (Low)
UNAFFECTED VERSIONS
< 0.24.0
PATCHED VERSIONS
~> 0.24.9
>= 0.25.2
DESCRIPTION
Puppet 0.24.x before 0.24.9 and 0.25.x before 0.25.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) /tmp/daemonout, (2) /tmp/puppetdoc.txt, (3) /tmp/puppetdoc.tex, or (4) /tmp/puppetdoc.aux temporary file.
RELATED
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-0156
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2010-0156
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/0aae57f91dc69b22fb674f8de3a13c22edd07128
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/6111ba80f2c6f6d1541af971f565119e6e03d77d
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502881
- http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/4401823f6cbf6087
- http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/73cd1b2896d986c2
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036083.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036166.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20100316113904/http://secunia.com/advisories/38766
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vrh7-99jh-3fmm