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SCA: security update for puppet (GHSA-77hg-g8cc-5r37)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 432313

Description

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

 - The change_user method in the SUIDManager (lib/puppet/util/suidmanager.rb) in Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.14
 and 2.7.x before 2.7.11, and Puppet Enterprise (PE) Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x before 2.0.3 does not
 properly manage group privileges, which allows local users to gain privileges via vectors related to (1)
 the change_user not dropping supplementary groups in certain conditions, (2) changes to the eguid without
 associated changes to the egid, or (3) the addition of the real gid to supplementary groups.
 (CVE-2012-1053)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-77hg-g8cc-5r37

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 432313

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/8/2025

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: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-1053

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/24/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1053

BID: 52158

cwe: CWE-269