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.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2014-11-16T17:00:00.000Z
Updated: 2024-08-06T10:35:57.167Z
Reserved: 2014-05-07T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2014-3248
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2014-11-16T17:59:03.113
Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837
Link: CVE-2014-3248