CVE-2014-3248.yml

---
gem: hiera
cve: 2014-3248
ghsa: 92v7-pq4h-58j5
url: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5
title: Moderate severity vulnerability that affects facter, hiera, mcollective-client, and puppet
date: 2017-10-24
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.
patched_versions:
  - ">= 1.3.4"
related:
  url:
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3248
    - https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5
    - 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