CVE-2014-3248 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3248 http://rowediness.com/2014/06/13/cve-2014-3248-a-little-problem-with-puppet/ http://secunia.com/advisories/59197 http://secunia.com/advisories/59200 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68035