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CVE-2011-3869

Date: October 27, 2011

Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.5, 2.6.x before 2.6.11, and 0.25.x allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the .k5login file.

Language: Ruby

Severity Score

6.7

Related Resources (15)

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-October/068053.html

Url: https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/puppet/CVE-2011-3869.yml

Url: http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/91e3b46d2328a1cb

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1223-1

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1223-2

Url: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/7d4c169df84fc7bbeb2941bf995a63470f71bdbd

Url: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-October/068093.html

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-October/068061.html

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2314

Url: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/2775c21ae48e189950dbea5e7b4d1d9fa2aca41c

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-3869

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/46458

Url: https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3869

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2011-3869

Severity Score

6.7

Weakness Type (CWE)

Link Following

CWE-59

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	6.7
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.3
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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