GitHub Advisory DatabaseGHSA-92V7-PQ4H-58J5facter, hiera, mcollective-client, and puppet affected by untrusted search path vulnerability
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.2%
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.
References
github.com/advisories/GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5
github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/facter/CVE-2014-3248.yml
github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/hiera/CVE-2014-3248.yml
github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/mcollective-client/CVE-2014-3248.yml
github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/puppet/CVE-2014-3248.yml
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3248
web.archive.org/web/20141129061319/www.securityfocus.com/bid/68035
web.archive.org/web/20150204183209/rowediness.com/2014/06/13/cve-2014-3248-a-little-problem-with-puppet/
web.archive.org/web/20150907182402/puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3248
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