CVE-2014-3248 facter, hiera, mcollective-client, and puppet affected by untrusted search path vulnerability

Medium 6.2 Published 16 Nov 2014 Updated 6 Aug 2024

Local attackers can escalate privileges by placing malicious files in the current working directory when using older Ruby versions.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: Available

What is CVE-2014-3248?

CVE-2014-3248 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Puppet Puppet Enterprise, published on 16 Nov 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-17

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3248?

12 open source packages ship an affected version, including puppet, facter and hiera. It affects 6 products.

Package	Affected	Fixed in
`puppet` RubyGems	All versions	`2.7.26`
`puppet` RubyGems	All versions	`2.7.26`
`puppet` RubyGems	From `3.0.0`	`3.6.2`
`puppet` RubyGems	From `3.0.0`	`3.6.2`
`facter` RubyGems	All versions	`1.7.6`
`facter` RubyGems	All versions	`1.7.6`

6 more packages

`facter` RubyGems	From `2.0.0`	`2.0.2`
`facter` RubyGems	From `2.0.0`	`2.0.2`
`hiera` RubyGems	All versions	`1.3.4`
`hiera` RubyGems	All versions	`1.3.4`
`mcollective-client` RubyGems	All versions	`2.5.2`
`mcollective-client` RubyGems	All versions	`2.5.2`

Linux distribution packages (1)

rubygem-facter openSUSE:Tumbleweed All versions 1.3.4-3.5

Products include Puppet Facter, Puppet Hiera, Puppet Marionette Collective, Puppet Puppet, Puppet Puppet Enterprise, Puppetlabs Facter.

How do I fix CVE-2014-3248?

Upgrade puppet to a fixed version for your release line: 2.7.26 or 3.6.2.

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

Is CVE-2014-3248 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3248 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3248, GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3248, openSUSE-SU-2024:10565-1.