USN-3308-1

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    USN-3308-1

    Published: 5 Jun 2017Last Modified: 27 Apr 2026

    Summary: puppet vulnerabilities

    Details: Dennis Rowe discovered that Puppet incorrectly handled the search path. A local attacker could use this issue to possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-3248) It was discovered that Puppet incorrectly handled YAML deserialization. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code on the master. This update is incompatible with agents older than 3.2.2. (CVE-2017-2295)

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3308-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3248, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-2295

    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