Bug 742174 (CVE-2011-3848) - CVE-2011-3848 puppet: Directory traversal attack by processing certain x509 certificate signing requests
Summary: CVE-2011-3848 puppet: Directory traversal attack by processing certain x509 c...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2011-3848
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 742654 742655
Blocks: 742180 748458
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Reported: 2011-09-29 10:10 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2021-02-24 14:37 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

Fixed In Version: puppet 2.6.10, puppet 2.7.4
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2012-07-04 06:44:17 UTC
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Puppet upstream patch against v2.7.x branch (5.66 KB, patch)
2011-09-29 10:12 UTC, Jan Lieskovsky 		no flags Details | Diff
Puppet upstream patch against v2.6.x branch (5.66 KB, patch)
2011-09-29 10:12 UTC, Jan Lieskovsky 		no flags Details | Diff
Puppet upstream patch against v0.25.x branch (5.58 KB, patch)
2011-09-29 10:14 UTC, Jan Lieskovsky 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-09-29 10:10:33 UTC 
A directory traversal flaw was found in the way SSLFile and YAML Puppet indirector base classes performed management or certain, user-supplied x509 certificate signing requests. An authenticated attacker could use this flaw to overwrite arbitrary system file, accessible with the privileges of the Puppet Master application.

References:
[1] http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/e57ce2740feb9406
[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=384859
Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-09-29 10:12:08 UTC 
Created attachment 525509 [details]
Puppet upstream patch against v2.7.x branch
Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-09-29 10:12:52 UTC 
Created attachment 525510 [details]
Puppet upstream patch against v2.6.x branch
Comment 3 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-09-29 10:14:33 UTC 
Created attachment 525511 [details]
Puppet upstream patch against v0.25.x branch
Comment 4 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-09-29 10:17:26 UTC 
This issue has been scheduled to be addressed in the following releases:
1) puppet-2.6.6-2.fc15 for Fedora-15,
2) puppet-2.6.6-2.fc14 for Fedora-14,
3) puppet-2.6.6-2.el6 for EPEL-6,
4) puppet-2.6.6-2.el5 for EPEL-5.

Once the above updates have passed the required testing, they will be pushed to particular -stable repositories.
Comment 6 Vincent Danen 2011-09-30 23:37:24 UTC 
Created puppet tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 742654]
Affects: epel-all [bug 742655]
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2011-10-24 15:39:50 UTC 
puppet-0.25.5-2.el4 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 4 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 8 Kurt Seifried 2012-04-11 16:14:53 UTC 
Resolved in Puppet 2.7.4 and 2.6.10, CloudForms ships Puppet 2.6.14.
Comment 9 Tomas Hoger 2012-07-04 06:44:17 UTC 
Fixed upstream in 2.7.4 and 2.6.10.

External Reference:

http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3848/
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