Link Following The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package puppet  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-PUPPET-364912
  • 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)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream puppet package and not the puppet package as distributed by Debian.

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.