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
    0.1% (44th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications
  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-PUPPET-22030
  • 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 Privilege Escalation. An unprivileged user on Windows agents could write custom facts that can escalate privileges on the next puppet run.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
Expand this section

Snyk

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