Privilege Escalation Affecting puppet package, versions <5.3.7 >=5.4.0, <5.5.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.06% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-PUPPET-22029
  • published 17 Jun 2018
  • disclosed 7 Jun 2018
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade puppet to versions 5.3.7, 5.5.2 or higher.

Overview

puppet is a Server automation framework and application.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to DLL preloading attacks which could lead to a privilege escalation.

References

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