CVE-2013-4969 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2013-4969?

CVE-2013-4969 is a low-severity path traversal vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 7 Jan 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Puppet before 3.3.3 and 3.4 before 3.4.1 and Puppet Enterprise (PE) before 2.8.4 and 3.1 before 3.1.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on unspecified files.

Weakness: CWE-59

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-4969?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Puppet Puppet Enterprise, Puppetlabs Puppet.

How do I fix CVE-2013-4969?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2013-4969 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4969 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as AZL-45426, DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4969, DSA-2831-1, GHSA-73jw-pjcv-9rgm, MGASA-2014-0084.