GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems

GHSA-77hg-g8cc-5r37 Puppet Privilege Escallation

MEDIUM Published 2022-05-14 Modified 2023-08-29 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2012-1053
Ecosystem
RubyGems
Packages
puppet
Severity
Moderate
Weaknesses
CWE-269
Reviewed
2023-08-29

Affected packages

• RubyGems puppet: >= 2.6, < 2.6.14 → fixed in 2.6.14 • RubyGems puppet: >= 2.7, < 2.7.11 → fixed in 2.7.11

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.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2012-1053 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… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References