CVE-2014-3248
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Puppet Enterprise 2.8 before 2.8.7, Puppet before 2.7.26 and 3.x before 3.6.2, Facter 1.6.x and 2.x…
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Description
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Puppet Enterprise 2.8 before 2.8.7, Puppet before 2.7.26 and 3.x before 3.6.2, Facter 1.6.x and 2.x before 2.0.2, Hiera before 1.3.4, and Mcollective before 2.5.2, when running with Ruby 1.9.1 or earlier, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse file in the current working directory, as demonstrated using (1) rubygems/defaults/operating_system.rb, (2) Win32API.rb, (3) Win32API.so, (4) safe_yaml.rb, (5) safe_yaml/deep.rb, or (6) safe_yaml/deep.so; or (7) operatingsystem.rb, (8) operatingsystem.so, (9) osfamily.rb, or (10) osfamily.so in puppet/confine.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.2 | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.54% · top 54% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.2.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsfacterGHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5 (opens in a new tab)
- RubyGemshieraGHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5 (opens in a new tab)
- RubyGemsmcollective-clientGHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5 (opens in a new tab)
- RubyGemspuppetGHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5 (opens in a new tab)
References (5)
- http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3248 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 59197 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 59200 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://rowediness.com/2014/06/13/cve-2014-3248-a-little-problem-with-puppet/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 68035 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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