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Package details: pkg:gem/facter@1.6.2
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Vulnerabilities affecting this package (2)
Vulnerability Summary Fixed by
VCID-qn7v-hcmm-v3e5
Aliases:
CVE-2015-1426
GHSA-j436-h7hm-rx46
Puppet Labs Facter allows local users to obtain sensitive Amazon EC2 IAM instance metadata 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.
2.4.1
Affected by 1 other vulnerability.
VCID-yb63-a74m-j7ha
Aliases:
CVE-2014-3248
GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5
facter, hiera, mcollective-client, and puppet affected by untrusted search path vulnerability 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`.
1.7.6
Affected by 2 other vulnerabilities.
2.0.2
Affected by 2 other vulnerabilities.
Vulnerabilities fixed by this package (0)
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Date Actor Action Vulnerability Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-05-30T05:17:47.486573+00:00 GitLab Importer Affected by VCID-qn7v-hcmm-v3e5 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/gem/facter/CVE-2015-1426.yml 38.6.0
2026-05-30T03:46:15.942083+00:00 GitLab Importer Affected by VCID-yb63-a74m-j7ha https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/gem/facter/CVE-2014-3248.yml 38.6.0
2026-05-29T23:57:23.943141+00:00 Ruby Importer Affected by VCID-yb63-a74m-j7ha https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/facter/CVE-2014-3248.yml 38.6.0