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CVE-2012-1053

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 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: none known
• Published: 2012-05-29 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

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.

Affected products

• Puppet Agent: 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.6.5 (+17)
• Puppet Enterprise: 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4, 2.0.0 (+2)
• Puppetlabs Puppet: 2.7.0, 2.7.1
• Puppetlabs Puppet Enterprise Users: 1.0, 1.1

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00003.html
• http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12457
• http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12458
• http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12459
• http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.6.14
• http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1053/
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48157
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48161
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48166
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48290
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1372-1
• http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2419

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