LOW

GHSA-vrh7-99jh-3fmm

Puppet arbitrary files overwrite via a symlink attack

Quick fix

GHSA-vrh7-99jh-3fmm — puppet: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

bundle update puppet

Details

Puppet 0.24.x before 0.24.9 and 0.25.x before 0.25.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) /tmp/daemonout, (2) /tmp/puppetdoc.txt, (3) /tmp/puppetdoc.tex, or (4) /tmp/puppetdoc.aux temporary file.

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Affected packages

RubyGems/puppet

Introduced in: 0.24.0Fixed in: 0.24.9

Fixbundle update puppet

RubyGems/puppet

Introduced in: 0.25.0Fixed in: 0.25.2

Fixbundle update puppet

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-0156[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/0aae57f91dc69b22fb674f8de3a13c22edd07128[WEB]
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/6111ba80f2c6f6d1541af971f565119e6e03d77d[WEB]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502881[WEB]
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/puppet/CVE-2010-0156.yml[WEB]
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2010-0156[WEB]
https://web.archive.org/web/20100316113904/http://secunia.com/advisories/38766[WEB]
http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/4401823f6cbf6087[WEB]
http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/73cd1b2896d986c2[WEB]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036083.html[WEB]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036166.html[WEB]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html[WEB]