National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-3870
Original release date:10/27/2011
Last revised:05/13/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.5, 2.6.x before 2.6.11, and 0.25.x allows local users to modify the permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the SSH authorized_keys file.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
9.2
Exploitability Subscore:
3.4
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2011-13623
Type: Patch Information
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2011-13633
Type: Patch Information
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2011-13636
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/91e3b46d2328a1cb
Type: Patch Information
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-1223-2
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-1223-1
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-2314
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 46458
Type: Advisory
