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SCA: security update for puppet (GHSA-cj43-9h3w-v976)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422268

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Unspecified vulnerability in Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.23 and 3.2.x before 3.2.4, and Puppet Enterprise
 2.8.x before 2.8.3 and 3.0.x before 3.0.1, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Ruby programs from
 the master via the resource_type service. NOTE: this vulnerability can only be exploited utilizing
 unspecified "local file system access" to the Puppet Master. (CVE-2013-4761)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cj43-9h3w-v976

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422268

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.8

Percentile: 22.22

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-4761

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/15/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4761

BID: 61806