Group Privilege Escalation Affecting puppet package, versions <2.6.14 >=2.7.0, <2.7.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-PUPPET-20308
  • published 28 Feb 2017
  • disclosed 11 Oct 2011
  • credit Puppet Labs

How to fix?

Upgrade puppet to version 2.6.14, 2.7.11 or higher.

Overview

puppet is an automated configuration management tool. Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Group Privilege Escalation. When executing commands as a different user, Puppet leaves the forked process with Puppet's own group permissions. This may allow untrusted code executed by a Puppet exec resource to be given unexpectedly high permissions.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
7.8 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

7.8 high