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Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting puppet package, versions <2.7.26 >=3.0.0, <3.6.2

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.04% (6th percentile)
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NVD
7.4 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-PUPPET-20329
  • published 28 Feb 2017
  • disclosed 10 Jun 2014
  • credit Dennis Rowe
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Introduced: 10 Jun 2014

CVE-2014-3248 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-94 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade puppet to version 2.7.26, 3.6.2 or higher.

Overview

puppet is an automated configuration management tool. Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. An attacker could have Puppet execute malicious code by convincing a privileged user to change directories to one containing the malicious code and then run Puppet.

Note: On platforms with Ruby 1.9.1 or earlier.