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CVE-2013-4761

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-4761 describes an unspecified vulnerability in Puppet 2.7.x, 3.2.x, and Puppet Enterprise 2.8.x, 3.0.x that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Ruby programs on the master via the resource_type service. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.1, indicating a medium severity, with a network attack vector, high attack complexity, and potential for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. Crucially, exploitation requires unspecified "local file system access" to the Puppet Master. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:3.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:3.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:3.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppetlabs:puppet:3.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.7.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:2.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.1MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.64%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0164 is in the 50th percentile among its peer group of 19,956 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (12)

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: 2.7.23
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: puppetFixed in: 3.2.4
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5Fixed in: puppet
redhatno patchvia 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-cj43-9h3w-v976medium

Puppet allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Ruby programs from the master via the resource_type service

Oct 24, 2017
redhatCVE-2013-4761Moderate

Puppet: resource_type service code execution

Aug 15, 2013

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2014-01/msg00009.html
puppetlabs.com / security/cve/cve-2013-4761
Vendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1283.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1284.html
debian.org / security/2013/dsa-2761