SCA: security update for puppet (GHSA-574q-fxfj-wv6h)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422559

Description

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

- Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.21 and 3.1.x before 3.1.1, when running Ruby 1.9.3 or later, allows remote
attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to "serialized attributes." (CVE-2013-1655)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-574q-fxfj-wv6h

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422559

Version: Revision 1.3

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: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-1655

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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: 3/13/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1655

BID: 58442

cwe: CWE-20