CWE Code: 17
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 6.2
CWE Name:  DEPRECATED: Code
Summary: 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.
Access Authentication: NONE
Access Complexity: HIGH
Access Vector: LOCAL
Impact (C/I/A): COMPLETE/COMPLETE/COMPLETE
Published Date: 2014-11-16
Last Modified Date: 2019-07-16