CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-1053
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-05-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The change_user method in the SUIDManager (lib/puppet/util/suidmanager.rb) in Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.14 and 2.7.x before 2.7.11, and Puppet Enterprise (PE) Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x before 2.0.3 does not properly manage group privileges, which allows local users to gain privileges via vectors related to (1) the change_user not dropping supplementary groups in certain conditions, (2) changes to the eguid without associated changes to the egid, or (3) the addition of the real gid to supplementary groups.
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 2.6.11
• puppet puppet 2.6.12
• puppet puppet 2.6.13
• puppet puppet 2.7.2
• puppet puppet 2.7.3
• puppet puppet 2.7.4
• puppet puppet 2.7.5
• puppet puppet 2.7.6
• puppet puppet 2.7.7
• puppet puppet 2.7.8
• puppet puppet 2.7.9
• puppet puppet 2.7.10
• puppetlabs puppet 2.7.0
• puppetlabs puppet 2.7.1
• puppet puppet enterprise 1.2.0
• puppet puppet enterprise 1.2.1
• puppet puppet enterprise 1.2.2
• puppet puppet enterprise 1.2.3
• puppet puppet enterprise 1.2.4
• puppet puppet enterprise 2.0.0
• puppet puppet enterprise 2.0.1
• puppet puppet enterprise 2.0.2
• puppetlabs puppet enterprise users 1.0
• puppetlabs puppet enterprise users 1.1
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00003.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12457 projects.puppetlabs.com
- http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12458 projects.puppetlabs.com
- http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12459 projects.puppetlabs.com
- http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.6.14 projects.puppetlabs.com
- http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1053/ Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48157 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48161 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48166 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48290 Vendor Advisory
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1372-1 ubuntu.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2419 www.debian.org
- http://www.osvdb.org/79495 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52158 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/73445 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15087408 hermes.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00003.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12457 projects.puppetlabs.com
- http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12458 projects.puppetlabs.com
- http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12459 projects.puppetlabs.com
- http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.6.14 projects.puppetlabs.com
- http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1053/ Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48157 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48161 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48166 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48290 Vendor Advisory
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1372-1 ubuntu.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2419 www.debian.org
- http://www.osvdb.org/79495 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52158 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/73445 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15087408 hermes.opensuse.org