CVE-2014-3248

mediumpriority · track · 25EPSS 0.005 · 45 %ileEURUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.54% (45th) EPSS

CVSS 6.2 · medium

Is it mine?

16 products

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Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.2

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.06.2mediumAV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.9 · impact 10

v2.06.2mediumAV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Csecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v2.05.3mediumAV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-17USprimaryCWE-17US

affected products (16)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
Gentoo Foundation Inc. Gentoo Linux≤ 20140826fstec_bduRU
puppet facter= 2.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:facter:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet facter= 2.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:facter:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet hiera< 1.3.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:hiera:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet marionette collective< 2.5.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:marionette_collective:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet< 2.7.26nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet3.6.0 → 3.6.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet enterprise2.8.0 → 2.8.7nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppetlabs facter1.6.0 → 1.6.18nvdUScpe:2.3:a:puppetlabs:facter:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
RubyGems facter< 1.7.6osvUSpkg:gem/facter
RubyGems facter2.0.0 → 2.0.2osvUSpkg:gem/facter
RubyGems hiera< 1.3.4osvUSpkg:gem/hiera
RubyGems mcollective-client< 2.5.2osvUSpkg:gem/mcollective-client
RubyGems puppet< 2.7.26osvUSpkg:gem/puppet
RubyGems puppet3.0.0 → 3.6.2osvUSpkg:gem/puppet

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5facter, hiera, mcollective-client, and puppet affected by untrusted search path vulnerability2017-10-24ghsa · osvUS
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`.

also known as (5)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2014-11-16modified 2026-06-17

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references (15)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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