Arbitrary Code Loading 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-22031
  • published 17 Jun 2018
  • disclosed 8 Jun 2018
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade puppet to versions 5.3.7, 5.5.2 or higher.

Overview

puppet is an an automated configuration management tool.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Loading. With a specially crafted configuration file an attacker could get pxp-agent to load arbitrary code with 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