Executive Summary

Summary
Title Puppet vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-1886-1 First vendor Publication 2013-06-18
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2013-06-18
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:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 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 13.04 - Ubuntu 12.10 - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

Puppet could be made to run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Software Description: - puppet: Centralized configuration management

Details:

It was discovered that Puppet incorrectly handled YAML payloads. An attacker on an untrusted client could use this issue to execute arbitrary code on the master.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 13.04:
puppet-common 2.7.18-4ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 12.10:
puppet-common 2.7.18-1ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
puppet-common 2.7.11-1ubuntu2.3

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1886-1
CVE-2013-3567

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/puppet/2.7.18-4ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/puppet/2.7.18-1ubuntu1.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/puppet/2.7.11-1ubuntu2.3

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1886-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17078
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17078
Title: USN-1886-1 -- Puppet vulnerability
Description: Puppet could be made to run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): usn-1886-1
CVE-2013-3567
Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 13.04
Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 12.10
Product(s): puppet-common
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18497
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18497
Title: DSA-2715-1 puppet - code execution
Description: It was discovered that puppet, a centralized configuration management system, did not correctly handle YAML payloads. A remote attacker could use a specially-crafted payload to execute arbitrary code on the puppet master.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2715-1
CVE-2013-3567
Version: 8
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
Debian GNU/Linux 7
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7
Product(s): puppet
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25383
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25383
Title: SUSE-RU-2013:1512-1 -- Recommended update for puppet
Description: This update for puppet fixes a regression introduced by the fix for CVE-2013-3567.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): SUSE-RU-2013:1512-1
CVE-2013-3567
Version: 3
Platform(s): SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
Product(s): puppet
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25904
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25904
Title: SUSE-SU-2013:1304-1 -- Security update for puppet
Description: This puppet update fixes a remote code execution issue: * Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Vulnerability with YAML and REST API calls (bug#825878, CVE-2013-3567) Security Issue reference: * CVE-2013-3567 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-3567 >
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): SUSE-SU-2013:1304-1
CVE-2013-3567
Version: 3
Platform(s): SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
Product(s): puppet
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 14
Application 26
Application 11
Os 3
Os 2
Os 2
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2013-661.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-10-28 Name : A web application on the remote host has a code execution vulnerability.
File : puppet_cve_2013-3567.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-09-04 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2013-213.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-25 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201308-04.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-07 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_puppet-130730.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-06-29 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2715.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-06-29 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2013-186.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-06-23 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_b162b218c5474ba2ae316fdcb61bc763.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-06-19 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1886-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 12:02:11
  • Multiple Updates
2013-08-20 21:28:49
  • Multiple Updates
2013-08-20 17:26:57
  • Multiple Updates
2013-06-19 00:18:25
  • First insertion