CVE catalog
CVE-2014-3248
facter: CVE-2014-3248
- Severity
- Medium
- Published
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 0.54% · Oct 25, 2026
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.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | hiera | sid | 3.12.0-1 | fixed |
| Debian | hiera | forky | 3.12.0-1 | fixed |
| Debian | hiera | trixie | 3.12.0-1 | fixed |
| Debian | hiera | bookworm | 3.10.0-1 | fixed |
| Debian | facter | trixie | 4.10.0-1 | fixed |
| Debian | facter | bookworm | 4.3.0-2 | fixed |
| Debian | mcollective | bookworm | 2.12.5+dfsg-1.1 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | puppet | 14.04 | 3.2.4-2ubuntu2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | puppet | 14.04 | 3.3.1-1ubuntu1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | puppet | 14.04 | 3.3.1-1ubuntu2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | puppet | 14.04 | 3.3.1-1ubuntu3 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | puppet | 14.04 | 3.4.2-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | puppet | 14.04 | 3.4.3-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | puppet | 14.04 | 3.4.3-1ubuntu1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | puppet | 14.04 | 3.4.3-1ubuntu1.1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | puppet | 14.04 | 3.4.3-1ubuntu1.2 | fixed |
| Opensuse | rubygem-facter | tumbleweed | 1.3.4-3.5 | fixed |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | hiera | source | sid | 1.3.4-1 | low | Not reported | Not reported |
| Debian | hiera | source | forky | 1.3.4-1 | low | Not reported | Not reported |
| Debian | hiera | source | trixie | 1.3.4-1 | low | Not reported | Not reported |
| Debian | hiera | source | bookworm | 1.3.4-1 | low | Not reported | Not reported |
| Debian | facter | source | trixie | 2.0.1-1 | low | Not reported | Not reported |
| Debian | facter | source | bookworm | 2.0.1-1 | low | Not reported | Not reported |
| Debian | mcollective | source | bookworm | 2.5.2+dfsg-1 | low | Not reported | Not reported |
| Ubuntu | puppet | deb | 14.04 | 3.4.3-1ubuntu1.2 | Not reported | USN-3308-1 | Not reported |
| Opensuse | rubygem-facter | rpm | tumbleweed | 1.3.4-3.5 | Not reported | OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10565-1 | Not reported |
OpenFactory catalog packages
[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]
- [facter]Fixed
Details (2)
4.3.0-2· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
2.0.1-1dsa · facter · debian · bookworm; dsa · facter · debian · 12
4.3.0-2· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
2.0.1-1dsa · facter · debian · bookworm; dsa · facter · debian · 12
- [hiera]Fixed
Details (2)
3.10.0-1· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
1.3.4-1dsa · hiera · debian · bookworm; dsa · hiera · debian · 12
3.10.0-1· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
1.3.4-1dsa · hiera · debian · bookworm; dsa · hiera · debian · 12
- [mcollective]Fixed
Details (2)
2.12.5+dfsg-1.1· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
2.5.2+dfsg-1dsa · mcollective · debian · bookworm; dsa · mcollective · debian · 12
2.12.5+dfsg-1.1· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
2.5.2+dfsg-1dsa · mcollective · debian · bookworm; dsa · mcollective · debian · 12
- [mcollective-client]Fixed
Source package: [mcollective]
Details (2)
2.12.5+dfsg-1.1· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
2.5.2+dfsg-1dsa · mcollective · debian · bookworm; dsa · mcollective · debian · 12
2.12.5+dfsg-1.1· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
2.5.2+dfsg-1dsa · mcollective · debian · bookworm; dsa · mcollective · debian · 12
- [mcollective-common]Fixed
Source package: [mcollective]
Details (2)
2.12.5+dfsg-1.1· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
2.5.2+dfsg-1dsa · mcollective · debian · bookworm; dsa · mcollective · debian · 12
2.12.5+dfsg-1.1· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
2.5.2+dfsg-1dsa · mcollective · debian · bookworm; dsa · mcollective · debian · 12
- [mcollective-doc]Fixed
Source package: [mcollective]
Details (2)
2.12.5+dfsg-1.1· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
2.5.2+dfsg-1dsa · mcollective · debian · bookworm; dsa · mcollective · debian · 12
2.12.5+dfsg-1.1· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
2.5.2+dfsg-1dsa · mcollective · debian · bookworm; dsa · mcollective · debian · 12
[Debian 13 (Trixie)]
- [facter]Fixed
Details (2)
4.10.0-1· all · trixieFixed · Fixed:
2.0.1-1dsa · facter · debian · 13
4.10.0-1· all · trixieFixed · Fixed:
2.0.1-1dsa · facter · debian · 13
- [hiera]Fixed
Details (2)
3.12.0-1· all · trixieFixed · Fixed:
1.3.4-1dsa · hiera · debian · 13
3.12.0-1· all · trixieFixed · Fixed:
1.3.4-1dsa · hiera · debian · 13
Observed:
References
- [https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/suse-ru-2015_0696-1.json]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3248]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3308-1]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10565-1]
- [https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-3248]
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