CVE-2013-4761

medium

Published 2017-10-24 · Modified 2024-11-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.1

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.23 and 3.2.x before 3.2.4, and Puppet Enterprise 2.8.x before 2.8.3 and 3.0.x before 3.0.1, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Ruby programs from the master via the resource_type service. NOTE: this vulnerability can only be exploited utilizing unspecified "local file system access" to the Puppet Master.

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.

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
bullseye	Fixed	`3.2.4-1`

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
RubyGems	puppet	`!< 2.7.0\|\|<~> 2.7.23`	`~> 2.7.23`
RubyGems	puppet	`>=2.7.0,<2.7.23`	`2.7.23`
RubyGems	puppet	`>=3.2.0,<3.2.4`	`3.2.4`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
puppet	puppet	`3.2.1`
puppet	puppet	`3.2.2`
puppet	puppet	`3.2.3`
puppetlabs	puppet	`3.2.0`
puppet	puppet	`2.7.2`
puppetlabs	puppet	`2.7.0`
puppetlabs	puppet	`2.7.1`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`2.8.0`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`2.8.1`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`2.8.2`
puppet	puppet_enterprise	`3.0.0`

References

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

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