CVE-2010-0156
low
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
3.3
Description
Puppet 0.24.x before 0.24.9 and 0.25.x before 0.25.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) /tmp/daemonout, (2) /tmp/puppetdoc.txt, (3) /tmp/puppetdoc.tex, or (4) /tmp/puppetdoc.aux temporary file.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| bullseye | Fixed | 0.25.4-2 |
References
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2010-0156
- http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/4401823f6cbf6087
- http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/73cd1b2896d986c2
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036083.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036166.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38766
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502881
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-0156
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/0aae57f91dc69b22fb674f8de3a13c22edd07128
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/6111ba80f2c6f6d1541af971f565119e6e03d77d
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/puppet/CVE-2010-0156.yml
- https://web.archive.org/web/20100316113904/http://secunia.com/advisories/38766
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-0156
CWEs
CWE-59
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.