---
cve: "CVE-2014-3248"
severity: "LOW"
cvss: 3.1
epss: "54%"
vendor: "n/a"
kev: false
exploited: false
published: "2014-11-16 17:59:03"
tags: [cve, security, low]
source: tsecurity.de CVE-Dossier
exported: "2026-09-08T08:47:20+02:00"
---

# CVE-2014-3248

> 3.1 LOW

## Beschreibung

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.

## Referenzen

- <http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3248>
- <http://secunia.com/advisories/59197>
- <http://secunia.com/advisories/59200>
- <http://rowediness.com/2014/06/13/cve-2014-3248-a-little-problem-with-puppet/>
- <http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68035>

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_Exportiert aus dem [tsecurity.de CVE-Dossier](https://tsecurity.de/cve?cve=CVE-2014-3248) · Datenquellen: EUVD (ENISA), NVD, OSV, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Exploit-DB, BSI BITS_
