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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.
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.