CVE-2014-3248
facter, hiera, mcollective-client, and puppet affected by untrusted search path vulnerability
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.
How to fix CVE-2014-3248
To remediate CVE-2014-3248, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 2.0.1-1 or later
- —upgrade to 1.3.4-1 or later
- —upgrade to 2.5.2+dfsg-1 or later
- —upgrade to 3.7.0-1 or later
- —upgrade to 1.7.6 or later
- —upgrade to 1.3.4 or later
- —upgrade to 2.5.2 or later
- —upgrade to 2.7.26 or later
Is CVE-2014-3248 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (8)
- from 0, < 2.0.1-1
- from 0, < 1.3.4-1
- from 0, < 2.5.2+dfsg-1
- from 0, < 3.7.0-1
- from 0, < 1.7.6
- from 0, < 1.3.4
- from 0, < 2.5.2
- from 0, < 2.7.26