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SCA: security update for puppet (GHSA-8c56-v25w-f89c)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434301

Description

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

 - Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.5, 2.6.x before 2.6.11, and 0.25.x allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files
 via a symlink attack on the .k5login file. (CVE-2011-3869)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8c56-v25w-f89c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 434301

Version: Revision 1.2

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: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-3869

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/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: 9/30/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3869

BID: 49909

cwe: CWE-59