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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Puppet vulnerabilities (USN-3308-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 100632

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3308-1 advisory.

 Dennis Rowe discovered that Puppet incorrectly handled the search path. A local attacker could use this issue to possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-3248)

 It was discovered that Puppet incorrectly handled YAML deserialization. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code on the master. This update is incompatible with agents older than 3.2.2. (CVE-2017-2295)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3308-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 100632

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3308-1.nasl

Version: 3.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/6/2017

Updated: 8/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-3248

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-2295

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:puppet, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vim-puppet, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:puppetmaster-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:puppet-el, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:puppetmaster, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:puppet-testsuite, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:puppetmaster-passenger, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:puppet-common

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/5/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/16/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3248, CVE-2017-2295

USN: 3308-1