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AUSCERT Security Bulletin
ASB-2014.0072
Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Puppet
Enterprise (2.8) and Puppet (all)
16 June 2014
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: Puppet Enterprise
Puppet
Operating System: UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Impact/Access: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands -- Remote with User Interaction
Access Confidential Data -- Remote/Unauthenticated
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2014-3249 CVE-2014-3248
Member content until: Wednesday, July 16 2014
OVERVIEW
Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Puppet Enterprise
(2.8) and Puppet (all). [1 - 2]
IMPACT
The vendor has provided the following details regarding two
vulnerabilities:
"CVE-2014-3248 (Arbitrary Code Execution with Required Social
Engineering)
Posted June 10, 2014
Assessed Risk Level: Medium
On platforms with Ruby 1.9.1 or earlier, an attacker could have
Puppet execute malicious code by convincing a privileged user to
change directories to one containing the malicious code and then run
Puppet.
CVSSv2 Score: 5.2
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C" [1]
"CVE-2014-3249 (Information leakage)
Posted June 10, 2014
Assessed Risk Level: Low
Unauthenticated users could hide and unhide nodes in the Console and
get a list of facts for a node.
CVSSv2 Score: 3.9
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N/E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C" [2]
MITIGATION
The vendor recommends updating to the latest versions of Puppet
Enterprise and Puppet to correct these issues. [1, 2]
REFERENCES
[1] CVE-2014-3248
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3248
[2] CVE-2014-3249
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3249
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in this document is accurate. However, the decision to use the information
described is the responsibility of each user or organisation. The decision to
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