Access Restriction Bypass Affecting puppet package, versions >=2.7.0, <2.7.13


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-PUPPET-536102
  • published 29 Nov 2019
  • disclosed 27 Jun 2012
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade puppet to version 2.7.13 or higher.

Overview

puppet is an automated configuration management tool.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. telnet.rb allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the NET::Telnet connection log (/tmp/out.log).

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
5.1 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    Low
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NVD

5.1 medium