CVE-2014-3248

Exp

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.

Published: 2014-11-16 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2014-3248 is rated Exploit Available (54.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.54%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2014-3248

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-3248

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.07% 0.54% +0.46%
2 2026-04-14 0.17% 0.07% -0.10%
3 2025-03-17 — 0.17% —

Full EPSS history (5 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-3248

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.2 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:H)
Exploitation requires uncommon or highly specific conditions.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:C)
Complete availability impact.
 1.9 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2014-3248

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2014-3248

GHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5 · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: rubygems — facter, hiera, mcollective-client, and puppet affected by untrusted search path vulnerability

OS Trackers for CVE-2014-3248

vendor priority summary link
debian low CVE-2014-3248 low priority: Debian including 4 source packages (facter, hiera, mcollective, puppet), 13 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 13. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-3248
gentoo high CVE-2014-3248: 2 GLSA(s) (201412-15, 201412-45), 2 atom(s) (app-admin/mcollective, dev-ruby/facter); latest impact high. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2014-3248
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3248
ubuntu low CVE-2014-3248 low priority: Ubuntu including 4 source packages (facter, mcollective, puppet, ruby-hiera), 112 status rows across 28 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lucid, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, precise, questing, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 54, DNE 35, ignored 17, needs-triage 3, released 2, needed 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3248

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-3248

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
puppet facter 2.0.0 cpe:2.3:a:puppet:facter:2.0.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet facter 2.0.0 cpe:2.3:a:puppet:facter:2.0.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet facter 2.0.0 cpe:2.3:a:puppet:facter:2.0.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet facter 2.0.0 cpe:2.3:a:puppet:facter:2.0.0:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet facter 2.0.1 cpe:2.3:a:puppet:facter:2.0.1:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet facter 2.0.1 cpe:2.3:a:puppet:facter:2.0.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet facter 2.0.1 cpe:2.3:a:puppet:facter:2.0.1:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet facter 2.0.1 cpe:2.3:a:puppet:facter:2.0.1:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet facter 2.0.1 cpe:2.3:a:puppet:facter:2.0.1:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppetlabs facter >= 1.6.0, <= 1.6.18 cpe:2.3:a:puppetlabs:facter:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet marionette_collective < 2.5.2 cpe:2.3:a:puppet:marionette_collective:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet hiera < 1.3.4 cpe:2.3:a:puppet:hiera:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet < 2.7.26 cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet >= 3.6.0, < 3.6.2 cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
puppet puppet_enterprise >= 2.8.0, < 2.8.7 cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2014-3248

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