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CVE-2013-3567

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-3567 describes a critical vulnerability in Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.22, 3.2.x before 3.2.2, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.8.2, affecting products from Canonical, Novell, and Puppet Labs. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by exploiting insecure deserialization of untrusted YAML via a crafted REST API call. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it represents a high-severity vulnerability with low attack complexity and potential for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation in the KEV catalog or readily available public exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity community.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.7.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:2.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.7.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:2.7.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.7.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:2.7.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.7.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:2.7.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.7.13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:2.7.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0341 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (11)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: ruby-shadow-0:1.4.1-13.el6_4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: ruby193-puppet-0:3.1.1-11.1.el6ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: facter-0:1.6.6-1.el6_4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: hiera-0:1.0.0-3.el6_4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: puppet-0:3.2.4-1.el6_4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: ruby-augeas-0:0.4.1-1.el6_4
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rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: puppetFixed in: 2.7.22
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: puppetFixed in: 3.2.2
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1Fixed in: puppet
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4Fixed in: puppet
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset ManagerFixed in: puppet

Vendor Advisories (2)

rubygemsGHSA-f7p5-w2cr-7cp7high

Puppet Improper Input Validation vulnerability

Oct 24, 2017
redhatCVE-2013-3567Critical

puppet: remote code execution on master from unauthenticated clients

Jun 18, 2013

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-08/msg00002.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-08/msg00019.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1283.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1284.html
secunia.com / advisories/54429
Vendor Advisory
puppetlabs.com / security/cve/cve-2013-3567
Vendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2013/dsa-2715
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1886-1