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Amazon Linux AMI : puppet (ALAS-2013-219)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 70223

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.23 and 3.2.x before 3.2.4, and Puppet Enterprise 2.8.x before 2.8.3 and 3.0.x before 3.0.1, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Ruby programs from the master via the resource_type service. NOTE: this vulnerability can only be exploited utilizing unspecified 'local file system access' to the Puppet Master.

Puppet Module Tool (PMT), as used in Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.23 and 3.2.x before 3.2.4, and Puppet Enterprise 2.8.x before 2.8.3 and 3.0.x before 3.0.1, installs modules with weak permissions if those permissions were used when the modules were originally built, which might allow local users to read or modify those modules depending on the original permissions.

Solution

Run 'yum update puppet' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2013-219.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 70223

File Name: ala_ALAS-2013-219.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/1/2013

Updated: 4/18/2018

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.8

Percentile: 22.22

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:amazon:linux, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:puppet, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:puppet-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:puppet-server

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AmazonLinux/release, Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 9/4/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4761, CVE-2013-4956

ALAS: 2013-219