Detections
Analytics

SCA: security update for puppet (GHSA-qh3g-27jf-3j54)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 432325

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 modify the permissions of
 arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the SSH authorized_keys file. (CVE-2011-3870)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qh3g-27jf-3j54

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 432325

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/8/2025

Updated: 1/28/2026

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-2011-3870

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-2011-3870

BID: 49909

cwe: CWE-59