Moderate severity vulnerability that affects facter, hiera, mcollective-client, and puppet
Published: October 24, 2017
SECURITY IDENTIFIERS
- CVE: CVE-2014-3248 (NVD)
- GHSA: GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5
GEM
PATCHED VERSIONS
~> 2.7.26
>= 3.6.2
DESCRIPTION
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.
RELATED
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3248
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5
- http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3248
- http://rowediness.com/2014/06/13/cve-2014-3248-a-little-problem-with-puppet/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59197
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59200
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68035
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/issues/238
- https://sca.analysiscenter.veracode.com/vulnerability-database/security/elevation-privileges-untrusted-search/ruby/sid-1586/summary