Puppet before 3.3.3 and 3.4 before 3.4.1 and Puppet Enterprise (PE) before 2.8.4 and 3.1 before 3.1.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on unspecified files.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2013-4969 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact in Subscription Asset Manager 1. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact in Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4.0. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates.
NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| Base Score | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Access Vector | Local |
| Access Complexity | Low |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
Find out more about Red Hat support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1 | puppet | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Satellite 6 | ruby193-puppet | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1.3 | puppet | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) | puppet | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 | puppet | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0 | ruby193-puppet | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0 | puppet | Will not fix |
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