UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3248

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3248

    Published: 16 Nov 2014Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-3248
    Aliases:
    USN-3308-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3248, http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3248, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/08/2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3308-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-3248

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: puppet

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.4.3-1ubuntu1.2

    Affected versions

    3.2.4-2ubuntu2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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