CVE-2014-3248
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.
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 45% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-17
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- puppet:facter
- puppet:hiera
- puppet:marionette_collective
- puppet:puppet
- puppet:puppet_enterprise
- puppetlabs:facter
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5 | RubyGems | facter | <1.7.6 | 1.7.6 |
| GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5 | RubyGems | facter | >=2.0.0 <2.0.2 | 2.0.2 |
| GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5 | RubyGems | hiera | <1.3.4 | 1.3.4 |
| GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5 | RubyGems | puppet | <2.7.26 | 2.7.26 |
| GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5 | RubyGems | puppet | >=3.0.0 <3.6.2 | 3.6.2 |
| GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5 | RubyGems | mcollective-client | <2.5.2 | 2.5.2 |