VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-3870

medium
Published 2011-10-27 · Modified 2024-12-02
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v2
6.3
VIR risk
6.3

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3870

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://secunia.com/advisories/46458

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-October/068093.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-October/068061.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-October/068053.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/91e3b46d2328a1cb

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbullseyefixed2.7.3-3

Package impact
EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
ruby RubyGemspuppet<~> 2.6.11~> 2.6.11
ruby RubyGemspuppet>=2.7.0,<2.7.52.7.5
ruby RubyGemspuppet<2.6.112.6.11

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
puppetpuppet2.6.0
puppetpuppet2.6.1
puppetpuppet2.6.2
puppetpuppet2.6.3
puppetpuppet2.6.4
puppetpuppet2.6.5
puppetpuppet2.6.6
puppetpuppet2.6.7
puppetpuppet2.6.8
puppetpuppet2.6.9
puppetpuppet2.6.10
puppetpuppet2.7.2
puppetpuppet2.7.3
puppetpuppet2.7.4
puppetlabspuppet2.7.0
puppetlabspuppet2.7.1
puppetpuppet0.25.0
puppetpuppet0.25.1
puppetpuppet0.25.2
puppetpuppet0.25.3
puppetpuppet0.25.4
puppetpuppet0.25.5
puppetpuppet0.25.6

References

CWEs

CWE-59

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.