CVE-2013-4969
low
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
2.1
Description
Puppet before 3.3.3 and 3.4 before 3.4.1 and Puppet Enterprise (PE) before 2.8.4 and 3.1 before 3.1.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on unspecified 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 withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Ubuntu Affected 4 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 13.10 | Affected | — |
| 13.04 | Affected | — |
| 12.10 | Affected | — |
| 12.04 | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 4 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| bullseye | Fixed | 3.4.1-1 |
| 8.0 | Affected | — |
| 7.0 | Affected | — |
| 6.0 | Affected | — |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| puppetlabs | puppet | {"startIncluding":"3.0.0","endIncluding":"3.3.2"} | |
| puppet | puppet_enterprise | {"startIncluding":"2.0.0","endExcluding":"2.8.4"} | 2.8.4 |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4969.html
- http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4969
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56253
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56254
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2831
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2077-1
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4969
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.