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CVE-2014-3248

Published: Nov 16, 2014Updated: May 6, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDUCWE-17
6.2MEDIUM
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.5%
Top 57.7%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
4 Known
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
OpenVAS

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.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:LAC:HAu:NC:CI:CA:C
Exploitability
AV:LAccess Vector
Local
AC:HAccess Complexity
High
Au:NAuthentication
None
Impact
C:CConfidentiality
Complete
I:CIntegrity
Complete
A:CAvailability
Complete
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Weaknesses

CWE-17

Affected Products

puppet
commercial·USaka puppet labs
facterOn-prem
Enterprise Software / itsm-monitoring
marionette collectiveOn-premWeb App
Enterprise Software / itsm-monitoring
hieraOn-prem
Enterprise Software / itsm-monitoring
puppetOn-prem
Enterprise Software / erp
puppet enterpriseOn-premDev Tool
DevTools & CI / ci-cd
RubyGems
package-ecosystem
facter
OSS Libraries
hiera
OSS Libraries
puppet
OSS Libraries
mcollective-client
OSS Libraries
Gentoo Foundation Inc.
oss-project·US
Gentoo LinuxOn-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
puppetlabs
commercial·USaka facter, puppet
facterOn-prem
DevTools & CI / build-test-tools
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Exploitability

4 exploit sources identified

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References

http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3248
puppetlabs.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/59197
secunia.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/59200
secunia.com
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