CVE-2012-1053Not scoredCWE-264

CVE-2012-1053: Puppet vulnerability

Puppet

Vendor fix available · Affected: Puppet · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)

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0.4%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days

33rd percentile

050100

Higher than 33% of scored CVEs

Not scored yet. The CVE record carries no CVSS score.

DescriptionCVE.org

The change_user method in the SUIDManager (lib/puppet/util/suidmanager.rb) in Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.14 and 2.7.x before 2.7.11, and Puppet Enterprise (PE) Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x before 2.0.3 does not properly manage group privileges, which allows local users to gain privileges via vectors related to (1) the change_user not dropping supplementary groups in certain conditions, (2) changes to the eguid without associated changes to the egid, or (3) the addition of the real gid to supplementary groups.

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Exploitation: Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
CISA KEV: Not listed
Public check: No public nuclei template
Weakness: Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls · Access Control
Vendor: Puppet
Published: May 2012
Band: Unlikely (under 1%), May 2012

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References

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