CVE-2010-0156
EPSS 0.03%Puppet arbitrary files overwrite via a symlink attack
Published: 5/2/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
Puppet 0.24.x before 0.24.9 and 0.25.x before 0.25.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) /tmp/daemonout, (2) /tmp/puppetdoc.txt, (3) /tmp/puppetdoc.tex, or (4) /tmp/puppetdoc.aux temporary file.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/puppetfrom 0, < 0.25.4-2
- RubyGems/puppet>= 0.24.0, < 0.24.9
References (14)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-0156
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-0156
- PATCHhttps://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet
- WEBhttp://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/4401823f6cbf6087
- WEBhttp://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/73cd1b2896d986c2
- WEBhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036083.html
- WEBhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036166.html
- WEBhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
- WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502881
- WEBhttps://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/0aae57f91dc69b22fb674f8de3a13c22edd07128
- WEBhttps://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/6111ba80f2c6f6d1541af971f565119e6e03d77d
- WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/puppet/CVE-2010-0156.yml
- WEBhttps://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2010-0156
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20100316113904/http://secunia.com/advisories/38766