Remote Code Execution (RCE)

mcollective-client is vulnerable to remote code execution. This is due to the use of eval to evaluate comparison expressions in discovery filters, which allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code via the mco ping command...

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects facter, hiera, mcollective-client, and puppet

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...

Remote Code Execution (RCE) Through YAML Deserialization

mcollective-client is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution RCE Through YAML Deserialization. The library uses the insecure YAML.load method to deserialize yaml files. This can allow a malicious user to inject and execute arbitrary code by sending a yaml file to the system...