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Package details: pkg:gem/facter@2.5.0
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Vulnerabilities affecting this package (1)
Vulnerability Summary Fixed by
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`. There are no reported fixed by versions.
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Date Actor Action Vulnerability Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-05-29T23:57:24.325757+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