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Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package puppet.src  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-PUPPETSRC-15133122
  • published29 Jan 2026
  • disclosed22 Feb 2012
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Introduced: 22 Feb 2012

CVE-2012-1053  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

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

The change_user method in the SUIDManager (lib/puppet/util/suidmanager.rb) in 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 does not properly manage group privileges, which allows local users to gain privileges via vectors related to (1) the change_user not dropping supplementary groups in certain conditions, (2) changes to the eguid without associated changes to the egid, or (3) the addition of the real gid to supplementary groups.

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