Puppet Privilege Escallation
Moderate severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
May 14, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Aug 29, 2023
Package
Affected versions
>= 2.6, < 2.6.14
>= 2.7, < 2.7.11
Patched versions
2.6.14
2.7.11
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
May 29, 2012
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 14, 2022
Reviewed
Aug 29, 2023
Last updated
Aug 29, 2023
The change_user method in the SUIDManager (lib/puppet/util/suidmanager.rb) in Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.14 and 2.7.x before 2.7.11, and Puppet Enterprise (PE) Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x before 2.0.3 does not properly manage group privileges, which allows local users to gain privileges via vectors related to (1) the change_user not dropping supplementary groups in certain conditions, (2) changes to the eguid without associated changes to the egid, or (3) the addition of the real gid to supplementary groups.
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