Remote Code Execution Affecting puppet package, versions >=2.0.0, <2.7.23 >=3.0.0, <3.2.4
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
1.06% (85th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-PUPPET-20326
- published 28 Feb 2017
- disclosed 15 Aug 2013
- credit Puppet Labs
Introduced: 15 Aug 2013
CVE-2013-4761 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade puppet to version 2.7.23, 3.2.4 or higher.
Overview
puppet is an automated configuration management tool.
Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution via the resource_type service. An attacker could cause puppet to load arbitrary Ruby files from the puppet master node’s file system.
Note: This behavior is not enabled by default, but could be enabled in the auth.conf file.
CVSS Scores
version 3.1