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CVE-2013-3567

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-08-19 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.22 and 3.2.x before 3.2.2, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.8.2, deserializes untrusted YAML, which allows remote attackers to instantiate arbitrary Ruby classes and execute arbitrary code via a crafted REST API call.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 12.10, 13.04
• Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: 11-sp3, 11.0-sp2
• Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server: 11.0-sp2, 11.0-sp3
• Puppet Agent: 2.7.2, 2.7.10, 2.7.11, 2.7.12, 2.7.13, 2.7.14 (+5)
• Puppet Enterprise: through 2.8.1; 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.0, 2.0.0, 2.5.1, 2.5.2 (+1)
• Puppetlabs Puppet: 2.7.0, 2.7.1, 2.7.19, 2.7.20, 2.7.20-rc1, 3.2.0 (+6)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-08/msg00002.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-08/msg00019.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1283.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1284.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/54429
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2715
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1886-1
• https://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2013-3567/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-08/msg00002.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-08/msg00019.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1283.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1284.html

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