Detections
Analytics
CVE-2014-3248
high
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.
References
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-0196
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68035
http://secunia.com/advisories/59200
http://secunia.com/advisories/59197
http://rowediness.com/2014/06/13/cve-2014-3248-a-little-problem-with-puppet/