Link Following Affecting puppet package, versions <3.4.1-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-PUPPET-364906
  • published7 Jan 2014
  • disclosed7 Jan 2014

Introduced: 7 Jan 2014

CVE-2013-4969  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 puppet to version 3.4.1-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream puppet package and not the puppet package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

Puppet before 3.3.3 and 3.4 before 3.4.1 and Puppet Enterprise (PE) before 2.8.4 and 3.1 before 3.1.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on unspecified files.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1