{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3248","details":"Untrusted search path vulnerability in Puppet Enterprise 2.8 before 2.8.7, Puppet before 2.7.26 and 3.x before 3.6.2, Facter 1.6.x and 2.x before 2.0.2, Hiera before 1.3.4, and Mcollective before 2.5.2, when running with Ruby 1.9.1 or earlier, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse file in the current working directory, as demonstrated using (1) rubygems/defaults/operating_system.rb, (2) Win32API.rb, (3) Win32API.so, (4) safe_yaml.rb, (5) safe_yaml/deep.rb, or (6) safe_yaml/deep.so; or (7) operatingsystem.rb, (8) operatingsystem.so, (9) osfamily.rb, or (10) osfamily.so in puppet/confine.","modified":"2026-01-30T01:40:05.634492Z","published":"2014-11-16T00:00:00Z","related":["USN-3308-1"],"upstream":["CVE-2014-3248"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3248"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3248"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/08/2"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3308-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-3248"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"puppet","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/puppet@3.4.3-1ubuntu1.2?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.4.3-1ubuntu1.2"}]}],"versions":["3.2.4-2ubuntu2","3.3.1-1ubuntu1","3.3.1-1ubuntu2","3.3.1-1ubuntu3","3.4.2-1","3.4.3-1","3.4.3-1ubuntu1","3.4.3-1ubuntu1.1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No subscription required","binaries":[{"binary_name":"puppet","binary_version":"3.4.3-1ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"puppet-common","binary_version":"3.4.3-1ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"puppet-el","binary_version":"3.4.3-1ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"puppet-testsuite","binary_version":"3.4.3-1ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"puppetmaster","binary_version":"3.4.3-1ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"puppetmaster-common","binary_version":"3.4.3-1ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"puppetmaster-passenger","binary_version":"3.4.3-1ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"vim-puppet","binary_version":"3.4.3-1ubuntu1.2"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2014/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3248.json"}},{"package":{"name":"facter","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/facter@1.7.5-1ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["1.7.0-1ubuntu1","1.7.2-1ubuntu1","1.7.3-1ubuntu1","1.7.5-1ubuntu1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"facter","binary_version":"1.7.5-1ubuntu1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2014/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3248.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}]}