CVE-2014-3248

Public Exploit

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.

Category

6.2
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 0.16%
Vendor Advisory puppetlabs.com
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3248 vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/59197 third party advisory technical description
http://secunia.com/advisories/59200 third party advisory technical description
http://rowediness.com/2014/06/13/cve-2014-3248-a-little-problem-with-puppet/ exploit technical description
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68035 third party advisory vdb entry

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2014-3248?
CVE-2014-3248 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2014-3248?
To fix CVE-2014-3248, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2014-3248 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2014-3248 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~0% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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