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CVE-2014-3248

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-3248 describes an untrusted search path vulnerability affecting multiple Puppet products, including Puppet Enterprise, Puppet, Facter, Hiera, and MCollective, when running on Ruby 1.9.1 or earlier. This flaw allows a local attacker to gain privileges by placing a malicious file in the current working directory, which the affected software then executes. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.2, indicating a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires high attack complexity and local access. There is no known active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:facter:2.0.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:facter:2.0.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:facter:2.0.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:facter:2.0.0:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:facter:2.0.1:-:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.2MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.9
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.54%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
42.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0054 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 1,595 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 0.1 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 (7)

rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: facterFixed in: 1.7.6
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: facterFixed in: 2.0.2
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: hieraFixed in: 1.3.4
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: puppetFixed in: 2.7.26
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: puppetFixed in: 3.6.2
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: mcollective-clientFixed in: 2.5.2
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 3Fixed in: puppet

Vendor Advisories (2)

rubygemsGHSA-92v7-pq4h-58j5medium

facter, hiera, mcollective-client, and puppet affected by untrusted search path vulnerability

Oct 24, 2017
redhatCVE-2014-3248Moderate

puppet: Ruby modules could be loaded from the current working directory

Jun 10, 2014

References

puppetlabs.com / security/cve/cve-2014-3248
Vendor Advisory
rowediness.com / 2014/06/13/cve-2014-3248-a-little-problem-with-puppet
ExploitTechnical Description
secunia.com / advisories/59197
Technical Description
secunia.com / advisories/59200
Technical Description
securityfocus.com / bid/68035
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry