Arbitrary File Read Access Affecting puppet package, versions <2.6.15 >=2.7.0, <2.7.13


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.25% (66th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-PUPPET-20311
  • published 28 Feb 2017
  • disclosed 2 Apr 2011
  • credit Puppet Labs

How to fix?

Upgrade puppet to version 2.6.15, 2.7.13 or higher.

Overview

puppet is an automated configuration management tool. Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Read Access. A malicious user with an authorized SSL key and can create symlinks on the puppet master, may thus read any file that the puppet master has access to. This is because a design flaw in puppet, when issuing a REST request for a file from a remote filebucket, it can override the puppet master’s defined location for filebucket storage.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

3.1 low