Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title Puppet vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-1217-1 First vendor Publication 2011-09-29
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2011-09-29
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 11.04 - Ubuntu 10.10 - Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary:

An attacker could send crafted input to puppet and cause it to overwrite files.

Software Description: - puppet: Centralized configuration management - agent startup and compatib

Details:

Kristian Erik Hermansen discovered a directory traversal vulnerability in the SSLFile indirection base class. A remote attacker could exploit this to overwrite files with the privileges of the Puppet Master.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 11.04:
puppet-common 2.6.4-2ubuntu2.2

Ubuntu 10.10:
puppet-common 2.6.1-0ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
puppet-common 0.25.4-2ubuntu6.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1217-1
CVE-2011-3848

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/puppet/2.6.4-2ubuntu2.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/puppet/2.6.1-0ubuntu2.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/puppet/0.25.4-2ubuntu6.2

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1217-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20526
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20526
Title: USN-1217-1 -- puppet vulnerability
Description: An attacker could send crafted input to puppet and cause it to overwrite files.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1217-1
CVE-2011-3848
Version: 5
Platform(s): Ubuntu 11.04
Ubuntu 10.10
Ubuntu 10.04
Product(s): puppet
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 14

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-04-30 Name : Fedora Update for puppet FEDORA-2012-6055
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_6055_puppet_fc15.nasl
2012-03-12 Name : Fedora Update for puppet FEDORA-2012-2367
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_2367_puppet_fc15.nasl
2012-03-12 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201203-03 (puppet)
File : nvt/glsa_201203_03.nasl
2011-11-21 Name : Fedora Update for puppet FEDORA-2011-14994
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2011_14994_puppet_fc15.nasl
2011-11-21 Name : Fedora Update for puppet FEDORA-2011-15000
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2011_15000_puppet_fc14.nasl
2011-10-18 Name : Fedora Update for puppet FEDORA-2011-13633
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2011_13633_puppet_fc14.nasl
2011-10-18 Name : Fedora Update for puppet FEDORA-2011-13636
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2011_13636_puppet_fc15.nasl
2011-10-16 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 2314-1 (puppet)
File : nvt/deb_2314_1.nasl
2011-09-30 Name : Ubuntu Update for puppet USN-1217-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1217_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
76018 Puppet X.509 Certificate Signing Request Parsing Traversal Arbitrary File Ove...

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_3_puppet-111005.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_3_puppet-111110.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_4_puppet-111005.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_4_puppet-111110.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-03-06 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201203-03.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-12-13 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_puppet-111111.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-10-04 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2314.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-09-29 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1217-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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