ADVISORIES

• CVE-2013-4761 (NVD)
• GHSA-cj43-9h3w-v976
• Vendor Advisory

GEM

puppet

SEVERITY

CVSS v2.0: 5.1 (Medium)

UNAFFECTED VERSIONS

• < 2.7.0

PATCHED VERSIONS

• ~> 2.7.23
• >= 3.2.4

DESCRIPTION

Unspecified vulnerability 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, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Ruby programs from the master via the resource_type service.

NOTE: this vulnerability can only be exploited using unspecified "local file system access" to the Puppet Master.

RELATED

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4761
• https://www.puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4761-resourcetype-remote-code-execution-vulnerability
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cj43-9h3w-v976
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-01/msg00009.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1283.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1284.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2761