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Vulnerability details: VCID-yb63-a74m-j7ha
Vulnerability ID VCID-yb63-a74m-j7ha
Aliases CVE-2014-3248
GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5
Summary 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`.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (4)
CWE-829 Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-17 DEPRECATED: Code
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
epss 0.00074 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2014-3248
cvssv3.1_qr MODERATE https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/facter/CVE-2014-3248.yml
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/hiera/CVE-2014-3248.yml
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/mcollective-client/CVE-2014-3248.yml
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/puppet/CVE-2014-3248.yml
generic_textual MODERATE https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3248
generic_textual MODERATE https://web.archive.org/web/20141129061319/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68035
generic_textual MODERATE https://web.archive.org/web/20150204183209/http://rowediness.com/2014/06/13/cve-2014-3248-a-little-problem-with-puppet
generic_textual MODERATE https://web.archive.org/web/20150907182402/http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3248
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2014-3248.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2014-3248
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3248
http://secunia.com/advisories/59197
http://secunia.com/advisories/59200
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/facter/CVE-2014-3248.yml
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/hiera/CVE-2014-3248.yml
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/mcollective-client/CVE-2014-3248.yml
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/puppet/CVE-2014-3248.yml
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3248
https://web.archive.org/web/20141129061319/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68035
https://web.archive.org/web/20150204183209/http://rowediness.com/2014/06/13/cve-2014-3248-a-little-problem-with-puppet
https://web.archive.org/web/20150907182402/http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3248
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68035
1101346 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1101346
CVE-2014-3248 http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3248
CVE-2014-3248-A-LITTLE-PROBLEM-WITH-PUPPET http://rowediness.com/2014/06/13/cve-2014-3248-a-little-problem-with-puppet/
CVE-2014-3248-A-LITTLE-PROBLEM-WITH-PUPPET https://web.archive.org/web/20150204183209/http://rowediness.com/2014/06/13/cve-2014-3248-a-little-problem-with-puppet/
GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5
GLSA-201412-15 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201412-15
GLSA-201412-45 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201412-45
USN-3308-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3308-1/
No exploits are available.
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.22494
EPSS Score 0.00074
Published At May 29, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-05-29T08:57:09.693515+00:00 GithubOSV Importer Import https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2017/10/GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5/GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5.json 38.6.0