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CVE-2013-4956

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-4956 describes a vulnerability in the Puppet Module Tool (PMT) affecting Puppet 2.7.x, 3.2.x, and Puppet Enterprise 2.8.x, 3.0.x. This flaw allows modules to be installed with weak permissions if those permissions were present during their original build, potentially enabling local users to read or modify the modules. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 3.6, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and potential for partial confidentiality and integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.7.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:2.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.7.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:2.7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.7.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:2.7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.7.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:2.7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.7.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:2.7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

3.6LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
30.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0038 is in the 47th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 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 (6)

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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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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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-4956Moderate

Puppet: Local Privilege Escalation/Arbitrary Code Execution

Aug 15, 2013

References

puppetlabs.com / security/cve/cve-2013-4956
Vendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1283.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1284.html
debian.org / security/2013/dsa-2761