VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-3871

medium
Published 2011-10-27 · Modified 2024-12-02
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.2

Description

Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.5, 2.6.x before 2.6.11, and 0.25.x, when running in --edit mode, uses a predictable file name, which allows local users to run arbitrary Puppet code or trick a user into editing arbitrary files.

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 with source_tier=community-verified.

OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
bullseye Fixed 2.7.3-3

Package impact
EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
ruby RubyGemspuppet<~> 2.6.11~> 2.6.11
ruby RubyGemspuppet>=2.7.0,<2.7.52.7.5
ruby RubyGemspuppet<2.6.112.6.11

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
puppetpuppet2.6.0
puppetpuppet2.6.1
puppetpuppet2.6.2
puppetpuppet2.6.3
puppetpuppet2.6.4
puppetpuppet2.6.5
puppetpuppet2.6.6
puppetpuppet2.6.7
puppetpuppet2.6.8
puppetpuppet2.6.9
puppetpuppet2.6.10
puppetpuppet2.7.2
puppetpuppet2.7.3
puppetpuppet2.7.4
puppetlabspuppet2.7.0
puppetlabspuppet2.7.1
puppetpuppet0.25.0
puppetpuppet0.25.1
puppetpuppet0.25.2
puppetpuppet0.25.3
puppetpuppet0.25.4
puppetpuppet0.25.5
puppetpuppet0.25.6

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.