CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-3871

6.2 MEDIUM Published 2011-10-27 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2011-10-27
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.2 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-264

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.

Affected configurations

• puppet puppet 2.6.0 • puppet puppet 2.6.1 • puppet puppet 2.6.2 • puppet puppet 2.6.3 • puppet puppet 2.6.4 • puppet puppet 2.6.5 • puppet puppet 2.6.6 • puppet puppet 2.6.7 • puppet puppet 2.6.8 • puppet puppet 2.6.9 • puppet puppet 2.6.10 • puppet puppet 2.7.2 • puppet puppet 2.7.3 • puppet puppet 2.7.4 • puppetlabs puppet 2.7.0 • puppetlabs puppet 2.7.1 • puppet puppet 0.25.0 • puppet puppet 0.25.1 • puppet puppet 0.25.2 • puppet puppet 0.25.3 • puppet puppet 0.25.4 • puppet puppet 0.25.5 • puppet puppet 0.25.6

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References