facter, puppet — security advisory

{
  "id": "08081570393c1588d6a1b4877491fe70506cd9053df3f7a685669a41e5a5170e",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3248",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3248",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3248",
    "products": [
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "puppet",
          "evidence": "/affected/0/package/name"
        },
        "prerequisites": [],
        "fixed_versions": [
          {
            "value": "3.4.3-1ubuntu1.2",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/ranges"
          }
        ],
        "affected_versions": [
          {
            "value": "3.2.4-2ubuntu2",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/versions"
          },
          {
            "value": "3.3.1-1ubuntu1",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/versions"
          },
          {
            "value": "3.3.1-1ubuntu2",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/versions"
          },
          {
            "value": "3.3.1-1ubuntu3",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/versions"
          },
          {
            "value": "3.4.2-1",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/versions"
          },
          {
            "value": "3.4.3-1",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/versions"
          },
          {
            "value": "3.4.3-1ubuntu1",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/versions"
          },
          {
            "value": "3.4.3-1ubuntu1.1",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/versions"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "facter",
          "evidence": "/affected/1/package/name"
        },
        "prerequisites": [],
        "fixed_versions": [],
        "affected_versions": [
          {
            "value": "1.7.0-1ubuntu1",
            "evidence": "/affected/1/versions"
          },
          {
            "value": "1.7.2-1ubuntu1",
            "evidence": "/affected/1/versions"
          },
          {
            "value": "1.7.3-1ubuntu1",
            "evidence": "/affected/1/versions"
          },
          {
            "value": "1.7.5-1ubuntu1",
            "evidence": "/affected/1/versions"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "facter",
          "evidence": "/affected/2/package/name"
        },
        "prerequisites": [],
        "fixed_versions": [],
        "affected_versions": [
          {
            "value": "4.10.0-1build1",
            "evidence": "/affected/2/versions"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "severity": "unknown",
    "structured": {
      "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3248",
      "aliases": [
        "UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3248"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "Ubuntu",
          "score": "low"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "3.4.3-1ubuntu1.2"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "puppet",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/puppet?arch=source&distro=trusty",
            "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
          },
          "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"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2014/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3248.json"
          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "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"
              }
            ],
            "availability": "No subscription required"
          }
        },
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "facter",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/facter?arch=source&distro=trusty",
            "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
          },
          "versions": [
            "1.7.0-1ubuntu1",
            "1.7.2-1ubuntu1",
            "1.7.3-1ubuntu1",
            "1.7.5-1ubuntu1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2014/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3248.json"
          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "binaries": [
              {
                "binary_name": "facter",
                "binary_version": "1.7.5-1ubuntu1"
              }
            ]
          }
        },
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "facter",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/facter?arch=source&distro=stonking",
            "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:26.10"
          },
          "versions": [
            "4.10.0-1build1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2014/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3248.json"
          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "binaries": [
              {
                "binary_name": "facter",
                "binary_version": "4.10.0-1build1"
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-17T12:52:47.552554332Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "upstream": [
        "CVE-2014-3248"
      ],
      "references": [
        "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3248",
        "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3308-1",
        "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-3248"
      ]
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2014-3248",
        "evidence": "/upstream"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": null
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 353297,
  "published_at": "2014-11-16T00:00:00+00:00"
}