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CVE-2009-3564

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2009-10-06 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

puppetmasterd in puppet 0.24.6 does not reset supplementary groups when it switches to a different user, which might allow local users to access restricted files.

Affected products

• Reductivelabs Puppet: 0.24.6

References

• http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/1806
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=475201
• https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2009-3564
• http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/1806
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=475201
• https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2009-3564

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