CVE-2014-3248

puppet: Ruby modules could be loaded from the current working directory

Published Nov 16, 2014 CVSS 2.0 · 6.2 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-0196 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5 facter, hiera, mcollective-client, and puppet affected by untrusted search path vulnerability
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3308-1 Puppet vulnerabilities
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 10:35 AM
Reserved
May 7, 2014, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Nov 16, 2014, 5:59 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 12:07 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Jun 10, 2014, 12:00 AM