MEDIUM
GHSA-8c56-v25w-f89c
Puppet arbitrary file overwrite
Quick fix
GHSA-8c56-v25w-f89c — puppet: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
bundle update puppetDetails
Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.5, 2.6.x before 2.6.11, and 0.25.x allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the .k5login file.
Are you affected?
Enter the version of the package you're using.
Affected packages
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-3869[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/2775c21ae48e189950dbea5e7b4d1d9fa2aca41c[WEB]
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/7d4c169df84fc7bbeb2941bf995a63470f71bdbd[WEB]
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet[PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/puppet/CVE-2011-3869.yml[WEB]
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3869[WEB]
- http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/91e3b46d2328a1cb[WEB]
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-October/068053.html[WEB]
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-October/068061.html[WEB]
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-October/068093.html[WEB]
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2314[WEB]
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1223-1[WEB]
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1223-2[WEB]