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medium 6.9

CVE-2012-1053 json

Puppet Privilege Escallation

published 2012-05-29 14 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also GHSA-77hg-g8cc-5r37 , EUVD-2022-2941

cvss
6.9
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 32%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The change_user method in the SUIDManager (lib/puppet/util/suidmanager.rb) in Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.14 and 2.7.x before 2.7.11, and Puppet Enterprise (PE) Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x before 2.0.3 does not properly manage group privileges, which allows local users to gain privileges via vectors related to (1) the change_user not dropping supplementary groups in certain conditions, (2) changes to the eguid without associated changes to the egid, or (3) the addition of the real gid to supplementary groups.

Patch / fix

  • rubygems puppet 2.6.14, 2.7.11
  • puppet Debian 11 2.7.11-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2012-1053

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2012-1053 updated cvss 6.0

Puppet 2.6.13 group ID handling issues

  • Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1 puppet
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 32% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
rubygems puppet
>=2.6, <2.6.14
>=2.7, <2.7.11
2.6.14
2.7.11

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

Sources

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