CVE-2013-4969

low
Published 2014-01-07 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
2.1
VIR risk
2.1

Description

Puppet before 3.3.3 and 3.4 before 3.4.1 and Puppet Enterprise (PE) before 2.8.4 and 3.1 before 3.1.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on unspecified files.

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-2013-4969

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://secunia.com/advisories/56254

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://secunia.com/advisories/56253

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4969

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4969.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debian6.0affected
debian debian7.0affected
debian debian8.0affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu13.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu13.10affected
debian debianbullseyefixed3.4.1-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
puppetlabspuppet{"startIncluding":"3.0.0","endIncluding":"3.3.2"}
puppetpuppet_enterprise{"startIncluding":"2.0.0","endExcluding":"2.8.4"}2.8.4

References

CWEs

CWE-59

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