GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5
facter, hiera, mcollective-client, and puppet affected by untrusted search path vulnerability
Quick fix
GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5 — facter: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
bundle update facterDetails
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`.
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References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3248[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/facter/CVE-2014-3248.yml[WEB]
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/hiera/CVE-2014-3248.yml[WEB]
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/mcollective-client/CVE-2014-3248.yml[WEB]
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/puppet/CVE-2014-3248.yml[WEB]
- https://web.archive.org/web/20141129061319/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68035[WEB]
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150204183209/http://rowediness.com/2014/06/13/cve-2014-3248-a-little-problem-with-puppet[WEB]
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150907182402/http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3248[WEB]