CVE-2014-3248

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Summary

CVECVE-2014-3248
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-11-16 17:59:03 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionUntrusted 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.2 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-17 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
High
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Puppet Facter 2.0.0 rc1 All All
Application Puppet Facter 2.0.0 rc2 All All
Application Puppet Facter 2.0.0 rc3 All All
Application Puppet Facter 2.0.0 rc4 All All
Application Puppet Facter 2.0.1 - All All
Application Puppet Facter 2.0.1 rc1 All All
Application Puppet Facter 2.0.1 rc2 All All
Application Puppet Facter 2.0.1 rc3 All All
Application Puppet Facter 2.0.1 rc4 All All
Application Puppet Hiera All All All All
Application Puppet Marionette Collective All All All All
Application Puppet Puppet All All All All
Application Puppetlabs Facter All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Security Advisory SA59197 - Puppet Security Bypass Security Issue and Code Execution Vulnerability - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Technical Description
CVE-2014-3248 | Puppet Labs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 puppetlabs.com Vendor Advisory
CVE-2014-3248 - A little problem with Puppet - Exceptions Passing in the Night af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rowediness.com Exploit, Technical Description
Multiple Puppet Products CVE-2014-3248 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Security Advisory SA59200 - Puppet Labs Multiple Products Code Execution Vulnerability - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Technical Description
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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