GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5Medium
facter, hiera, mcollective-client, and puppet affected by untrusted search path vulnerability
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 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.
🎯 Affected products6
- rubygems/facter:< 1.7.6
- rubygems/facter:>= 2.0.0, < 2.0.2
- rubygems/hiera:< 1.3.4
- rubygems/puppet:< 2.7.26
- rubygems/puppet:>= 3.0.0, < 3.6.2
- rubygems/mcollective-client:< 2.5.2
🔗 References (9)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3248
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/facter/CVE-2014-3248.yml
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/hiera/CVE-2014-3248.yml
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/mcollective-client/CVE-2014-3248.yml
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/puppet/CVE-2014-3248.yml
- https://web.archive.org/web/20141129061319/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68035
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150204183209/http://rowediness.com/2014/06/13/cve-2014-3248-a-little-problem-with-puppet/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150907182402/http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3248
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5