Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-3248

Title: Puppet Facter Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-3248.

CWE Category CWE-17
Published Date Nov 16, 2014
Modified Date May 06, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 6.2 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.07%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-3248: 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.

Impacted Vendors

R
reductivelabs 1
P
puppet 5
P
puppetlabs 2

Reference Links

http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3248 http://rowediness.com/2014/06/13/cve-2014-3248-a-little-problem-with-puppet/ http://secunia.com/advisories/59197 http://secunia.com/advisories/59200 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68035 http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3248 http://rowediness.com/2014/06/13/cve-2014-3248-a-little-problem-with-puppet/ http://secunia.com/advisories/59197 http://secunia.com/advisories/59200 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68035
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.2
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-3248 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.