Executive Summary

Summary
Title MCollective: Privilege escalation
Informations
Name GLSA-201412-15 First vendor Publication 2014-12-13
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2014-12-13
Severity (Vendor) Normal 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:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 6.2 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity High
Cvss Expoit Score 1.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Two vulnerabilities have been found in MCollective, the worst of which could lead to privilege escalation.

Background

MCollective is a framework to build server orchestration or parallel job execution systems.

Description

Two vulnerabilities have been found in MCollective:

* An untrusted search path vulnerability exists in MCollective (CVE-2014-3248)
* MCollective does not properly validate server certificates (CVE-2014-3251)

Impact

A local attacker can execute arbitrary a Trojan horse shared library, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation. Furthermore, a local attacker may be able to establish unauthorized MCollective connections.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All MCollective users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/mcollective-2.5.3"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2014-3248 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3248
[ 2 ] CVE-2014-3251 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3251

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-15.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-15.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-362 Race Condition
50 % CWE-17 Code

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 50
Application 1
Application 2
Application 183
Application 40
Application 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-06-06 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-3308-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-02-13 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2015-484.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-01-19 Name : The remote Solaris system is missing a security patch for third-party software.
File : solaris11_facter_20141120.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-01-19 Name : The remote Solaris system is missing a security patch for third-party software.
File : solaris11_puppet_20141216.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-29 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201412-45.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-15 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201412-15.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-10 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2014-456.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-11-24 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-12699.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-08-20 Name : A web application on the remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.
File : puppet_enterprise_330.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-07-22 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_ecea9e920be5493188da8772d044972a.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-07-09 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_puppet-140630.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-07-02 Name : A web application on the remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.
File : puppet_2_7_26.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-12-16 13:25:44
  • Multiple Updates
2014-12-13 21:22:15
  • First insertion