Group Privilege Escalation Affecting puppet package, versions <2.6.14 >=2.7.0, <2.7.1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.04% (10th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-PUPPET-20308
- published 28 Feb 2017
- disclosed 11 Oct 2011
- credit Puppet Labs
Introduced: 11 Oct 2011
CVE-2012-1053 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade puppet to version 2.6.14, 2.7.11 or higher.
Overview
puppet is an automated configuration management tool.
Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Group Privilege Escalation. When executing commands as a different user, Puppet leaves the forked process with Puppet's own group permissions. This may allow untrusted code executed by a Puppet exec resource to be given unexpectedly high permissions.