Insecure Temporary File Affecting puppet package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.43% (34th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-PUPPET-9890191
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed26 Dec 2013

Introduced: 26 Dec 2013

CVE-2013-4969  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-377  (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.

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 Base Scores

version 3.1