CVE-2011-3869
EPSS 0.04%Puppet arbitrary file overwrite
Published: 5/14/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.5, 2.6.x before 2.6.11, and 0.25.x allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the .k5login file.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/puppetfrom 0, < 2.7.3-3
- RubyGems/puppet>= 2.7.0, < 2.7.5
References (14)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-3869
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3869
- PATCHhttps://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet
- WEBhttp://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/91e3b46d2328a1cb
- WEBhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-October/068053.html
- WEBhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-October/068061.html
- WEBhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-October/068093.html
- WEBhttps://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/2775c21ae48e189950dbea5e7b4d1d9fa2aca41c
- WEBhttps://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/7d4c169df84fc7bbeb2941bf995a63470f71bdbd
- WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/puppet/CVE-2011-3869.yml
- WEBhttps://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3869
- WEBhttp://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2314
- WEBhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1223-1
- WEBhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1223-2