facter, hiera, mcollective-client, and puppet affected by untrusted search path vulnerability (GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5)
Published: 2017-10-24T18:33:36Z
Aliases: CVE-2014-3248
Severity: MODERATE · CWE: 

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`.

Affected packages:
package: ecosystem: RubyGems
name: facter
ranges: type: ECOSYSTEM
events: introduced: 0
fixed: 1.7.6
package: ecosystem: RubyGems
name: facter
ranges: type: ECOSYSTEM
events: introduced: 2.0.0
fixed: 2.0.2
package: ecosystem: RubyGems
name: hiera
ranges: type: ECOSYSTEM
events: introduced: 0
fixed: 1.3.4
package: ecosystem: RubyGems
name: puppet
ranges: type: ECOSYSTEM
events: introduced: 0
fixed: 2.7.26
package: ecosystem: RubyGems
name: puppet
ranges: type: ECOSYSTEM
events: introduced: 3.0.0
fixed: 3.6.2
package: ecosystem: RubyGems
name: mcollective-client
ranges: type: ECOSYSTEM
events: introduced: 0
fixed: 2.5.2