GHSA-cj43-9h3w-v976

Puppet allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Ruby programs from the master via the resource_type service

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2013-4761

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
RubyGems	puppet	>= 2.7.0, < 2.7.23	2.7.23
RubyGems	puppet	>= 3.2.0, < 3.2.4	3.2.4

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4761 advisory
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet package
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/puppet/CVE-2013-4761.yml web
https://www.puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4761-resourcetype-remote-code-execution-vulnerability web
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-01/msg00009.html web
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4761 web
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1283.html web
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1284.html web
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2761 web