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SCA: security update for facter, hiera, mcollective-client, puppet (GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423358

Description

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

 - 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.
 (CVE-2014-3248)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423358

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-3248

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/13/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3248

BID: 68035