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CVE-2014-3248

N/A

Published: November 16, 2014 at 05:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:07 AM UTC

6 products affected across 2 vendorsPuppet EnterprisePuppetMarionette Collective

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 0.5%

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Puppet Enterprise 2.8 before 2.8.7, Puppet before 2.7.26 and 3.x before 3.6.2, Facter 1.6.x and 2.x before 2.0.2, Hiera before 1.3.4, and Mcollective before 2.5.2, when running with Ruby 1.9.1 or earlier, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse file in the current working directory, as demonstrated using (1) rubygems/defaults/operating_system.rb, (2) Win32API.rb, (3) Win32API.so, (4) safe_yaml.rb, (5) safe_yaml/deep.rb, or (6) safe_yaml/deep.so; or (7) operatingsystem.rb, (8) operatingsystem.so, (9) osfamily.rb, or (10) osfamily.so in puppet/confine.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Facter · Puppet

95%

2.0.0 rc1 2.0.0 rc2 2.0.0 rc3 2.0.0 rc4 2.0.1 2.0.1 rc1 2.0.1 rc2 2.0.1 rc3 2.0.1 rc4

Hiera · Puppet

95%

v < 1.3.4

Affected range stops below 1.3.4, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Marionette Collective · Puppet

95%

v < 2.5.2

Affected range stops below 2.5.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Puppet · Puppet

95%

v < 2.7.263.6.0 ≤ v < 3.6.2

Affected range stops below 2.7.26, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 3.6.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Puppet Enterprise · Puppet

95%

2.8.0 ≤ v < 2.8.7

Affected range stops below 2.8.7, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Facter · Puppetlabs

95%

1.6.0 ≤ v ≤ 1.6.18

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3248

References (5)

x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3248

x_refsource_MISCExploitTechnical Description

Source: [email protected]

http://rowediness.com/2014/06/13/cve-2014-3248-a-little-problem-with-puppet/

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIATechnical Description

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/59197

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIATechnical Description

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/59200

VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68035

CVSS

6.2MEDIUM[email protected]

Confidentiality: COMPLETE
Integrity: COMPLETE
Availability: COMPLETE

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-17

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