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medium 6.2

CVE-2014-3248 json

facter, hiera, mcollective-client, and puppet affected by untrusted search path vulnerability

published 2014-11-16 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5 , EUVD-2017-0196

cvss
6.2
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 45%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • rubygems facter 1.7.6, 2.0.2
  • rubygems hiera 1.3.4
  • rubygems puppet 2.7.26, 3.6.2
  • rubygems mcollective-client 2.5.2
  • puppet marionette_collective 2.5.2
  • puppet hiera 1.3.4
  • puppet puppet 2.7.26, 3.6.2
  • puppet puppet_enterprise 2.8.7
  • hiera Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.3.4-1
  • facter Debian 13, Debian 12 2.0.1-1
  • mcollective Debian 12 2.5.2+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3248

  • puppet Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 3.4.3-1ubuntu1.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3248

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • rubygem-facter openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.3.4-3.5

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10565-1

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-2014-3248 updated cvss 4.4

puppet: Ruby modules could be loaded from the current working directory

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 3 puppet
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 (Icehouse) puppet Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4 puppet Red Hat Satellite 6 puppet, puppet-server Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager ruby193-puppet
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

0.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 45% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • rowediness.com http://rowediness.com/2014/06/13/cve-2014-3248-a-little-problem-with-puppet/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.2 AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
rubygems facter
<1.7.6
>=2.0.0, <2.0.2
1.7.6
2.0.2
rubygems hiera
<1.3.4
1.3.4
rubygems puppet
<2.7.26
>=3.0.0, <3.6.2
2.7.26
3.6.2
rubygems mcollective-client
<2.5.2
2.5.2

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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