LOW

GHSA-c5qq-g673-5p49

Puppet allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack

Quick fix

GHSA-c5qq-g673-5p49 — puppet: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

bundle update puppet

Details

`telnet.rb` in Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.13 and Puppet Enterprise (PE) 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the NET::Telnet connection log (`/tmp/out.log`).

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Affected packages

RubyGems/puppet

Introduced in: 2.7.1Fixed in: 2.7.13

Fixbundle update puppet

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1989[ADVISORY]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74797[WEB]
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/puppet/CVE-2012-1989.yml[WEB]
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15087408[WEB]
https://web.archive.org/web/20120415105345/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52975[WEB]
https://www.puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1989-arbitrary-file-write-access[WEB]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-05/msg00012.html[WEB]
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13606[WEB]
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.7.13[WEB]
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1989[WEB]
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1419-1[WEB]