6.2

CVE-2014-3248: puppet facter DEPRECATED: Code

CVSS: 6.2v2.0MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2014-3248DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3248openSUSE-SU-2024:10565-1
Published 16-11-2014Last modified 06-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2014-3248 is a medium (CVSS 6.2) DEPRECATED: Code vulnerability in puppet facter. EPSS estimates a 0.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 44.1% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Overall risk
35/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.2/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.54%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1reference

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 1
USN-3308-1

Timeline

  1. 16-11-2014
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.54%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

44%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.54% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.54%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (rowediness.com)

    Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Puppet5 products
RubyGems4 products
  • facter< 1.7.6 | ≥ 2.0.0, < 2.0.2
  • hiera< 1.3.4
  • mcollective-client< 2.5.2
  • puppet< 2.7.26 | ≥ 3.0.0, < 3.6.2
Debian3 products
  • facter< 2.0.1-1
  • hiera< 1.3.4-1
  • mcollective< 2.5.2+dfsg-1
Ubuntu2 products
  • facterAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • puppet< 3.4.3-1ubuntu1.2
Opensuse1 product
  • rubygem-facter&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 1.3.4-3.5
Puppetlabs1 product

6 vendors · 16 products

References

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