Vulnerability Report

CVE-2013-4969

Title: Puppetlabs Puppet

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2013-4969.

CWE Category CWE-59

Published Date Jan 07, 2014

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 2.1 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.04%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2013-4969: Puppet before 3.3.3 and 3.4 before 3.4.1 and Puppet Enterprise (PE) before 2.8.4 and 3.1 before 3.1.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on unspecified files.

Impacted Vendors

puppet 1

reductivelabs 1

puppetlabs 2

Reference Links

http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4969 http://secunia.com/advisories/56253 http://secunia.com/advisories/56254 http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2831 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2077-1 http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4969 http://secunia.com/advisories/56253 http://secunia.com/advisories/56254 http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2831 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2077-1

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

2.1

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2013-4969 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

January 07, 2014 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.