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Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package puppet  (opens in a new tab)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-364996
  • published29 May 2012
  • disclosed29 May 2012
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Introduced: 29 May 2012

CVE-2012-1054  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (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 2.6.x before 2.6.14 and 2.7.x before 2.7.11, and Puppet Enterprise (PE) Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x before 2.0.3, when managing a user login file with the k5login resource type, allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on .k5login.