CVE-2014-3248
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…
- 6.2MediumCVSS base score
- 0.54%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 54% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.2 | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.54% · top 54% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
4
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsfacterGHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5 (opens in a new tab)
- RubyGemshieraGHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5 (opens in a new tab)
- RubyGemsmcollective-clientGHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5 (opens in a new tab)
- RubyGemspuppetGHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5 (opens in a new tab)
References
5
- http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3248 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 59197 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 59200 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://rowediness.com/2014/06/13/cve-2014-3248-a-little-problem-with-puppet/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 68035 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-0196 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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