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  1. UnratedRubyGemsPublished

    Puppet Labs Facter allows local users to obtain sensitive Amazon EC2 IAM instance metadata

    CVE-2015-1426 · GHSA-j436-h7hm-rx46

    Affected
    • RubyGems facter >= 1.6.0, < 2.4.1
    Fixed in
    2.4.1· Vendor fix available
    Issue
    Puppet Labs Facter 1.6.0 through 2.4.0 allows local users to obtains sensitive Amazon EC2 IAM instance metadata by reading a fact for an Amazon EC2 node.

    Recommended action: Upgrade to 2.4.1 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.

    Sources:github.comSource checked Evidence →
  2. UnratedRubyGemsPublished

    facter, hiera, mcollective-client, and puppet affected by untrusted search path vulnerability

    CVE-2014-3248 · GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5

    Affected
    • RubyGems facter < 1.7.6; >= 2.0.0, < 2.0.2
    Fixed in
    2.0.21.7.6· Vendor fix available
    Issue
    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/operatingsystem.rb, (2) Win32API.rb, (3) Win32API.so, (4) safeyaml.rb, (5) safeyaml/deep.rb, or (6) safeyaml/deep.so; or (7) operatingsystem.rb, (8) operatingsystem.so, (9) osfamily.rb, or (10) osfamily.so in puppet/confine.

    Recommended action: Upgrade to 2.0.2 or 1.7.6 by release line, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.

    Sources:github.comSource checked Evidence →