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SCA: security update for puppet (GHSA-vrh7-99jh-3fmm)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433854

Description

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

 - Puppet 0.24.x before 0.24.9 and 0.25.x before 0.25.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a
 symlink attack on the (1) /tmp/daemonout, (2) /tmp/puppetdoc.txt, (3) /tmp/puppetdoc.tex, or (4)
 /tmp/puppetdoc.aux temporary file. (CVE-2010-0156)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vrh7-99jh-3fmm

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433854

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.1

Percentile: 6.91

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-0156

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/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: 5/2/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/31/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0156

BID: 38474

cwe: CWE-59