The 'puppet' package on Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10, 11.04, and 11.10 is affected by privilege escalation vulnerabilities (CVE-2012-1053, CVE-2012-1054). Update the package(s) to address the issue
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 58 |
---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | [SECURITY] [DSA 2419-1] puppet security update | 9 Mar 201200:00 | – | securityvulns |
![]() | Puppet security vulnerabilities | 9 Mar 201200:00 | – | securityvulns |
![]() | Security update for puppet (important) | 6 Mar 201222:08 | – | suse |
![]() | Medium: puppet | 15 Mar 201219:11 | – | amazon |
![]() | Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 / 11.10 : puppet vulnerabilities (USN-1372-1) | 24 Feb 201200:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | SuSE 11.1 Security Update : puppet (SAT Patch Number 5876) | 5 Mar 201200:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Debian DSA-2419-1 : puppet - several vulnerabilities | 28 Feb 201200:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Fedora 17 : puppet-2.6.14-1.fc17 (2012-2325) | 12 Mar 201200:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Fedora 15 : puppet-2.6.14-1.fc15 (2012-2367) | 12 Mar 201200:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Amazon Linux AMI : puppet (ALAS-2012-53) | 4 Sep 201300:00 | – | nessus |
Source | Link |
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ubuntu | www.ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1372-1 |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.840907");
script_cve_id("CVE-2012-1053", "CVE-2012-1054");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2012-03-09 13:26:11 +0000 (Fri, 09 Mar 2012)");
script_version("2024-02-02T05:06:04+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-02 05:06:04 +0000 (Fri, 02 Feb 2024)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.9");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_name("Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1372-1)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2012 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Ubuntu Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/ubuntu_linux", "ssh/login/packages", re:"ssh/login/release=UBUNTU(10\.04\ LTS|10\.10|11\.04|11\.10)");
script_xref(name:"Advisory-ID", value:"USN-1372-1");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1372-1");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the 'puppet' package(s) announced via the USN-1372-1 advisory.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"It was discovered that Puppet did not drop privileges when executing
commands as different users. If an attacker had control of the execution
manifests or the executed command, this could be used to execute code with
elevated group permissions (typically root). (CVE-2012-1053)
It was discovered that Puppet unsafely opened files when the k5login type
is used to manage files. A local attacker could exploit this to overwrite
arbitrary files and escalate privileges. (CVE-2012-1054)");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"'puppet' package(s) on Ubuntu 10.04, Ubuntu 10.10, Ubuntu 11.04, Ubuntu 11.10.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated package(s).");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-deb.inc");
release = dpkg_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
exit(0);
res = "";
report = "";
if(release == "UBUNTU10.04 LTS") {
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"puppet-common", ver:"0.25.4-2ubuntu6.6", rls:"UBUNTU10.04 LTS"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
if(release == "UBUNTU10.10") {
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"puppet-common", ver:"2.6.1-0ubuntu2.6", rls:"UBUNTU10.10"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
if(release == "UBUNTU11.04") {
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"puppet-common", ver:"2.6.4-2ubuntu2.8", rls:"UBUNTU11.04"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
if(release == "UBUNTU11.10") {
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"puppet-common", ver:"2.7.1-1ubuntu3.5", rls:"UBUNTU11.10"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
exit(0);
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