CVE-2010-0156

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-03-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

Puppet 0.24.x before 0.24.9 and 0.25.x before 0.25.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) /tmp/daemonout, (2) /tmp/puppetdoc.txt, (3) /tmp/puppetdoc.tex, or (4) /tmp/puppetdoc.aux temporary file.

Affected products

Puppet Agent: 0.24.3, 0.24.4, 0.24.5, 0.24.6, 0.24.6-rc1, 0.24.6-rc2 (+14)

References

http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/4401823f6cbf6087
http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/73cd1b2896d986c2
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036083.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036166.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/38766
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502881
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2010-0156
http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/4401823f6cbf6087
http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/73cd1b2896d986c2
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036083.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036166.html

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