Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere Affecting puppet package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.54% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-PUPPET-9886133
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed10 Jun 2014

Introduced: 10 Jun 2014

CVE-2014-3248  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-829  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 puppet.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream puppet package and not the puppet package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1