CVE-2013-4761

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-08-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.23 and 3.2.x before 3.2.4, and Puppet Enterprise 2.8.x before 2.8.3 and 3.0.x before 3.0.1, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Ruby programs from the master via the resource_type service. NOTE: this vulnerability can only be exploited utilizing unspecified "local file system access" to the Puppet Master.

Affected products

Puppet Agent: 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.3, 2.7.2
Puppet Enterprise: 2.8.0, 2.8.1, 2.8.2, 3.0.0
Puppetlabs Puppet: 3.2.0, 2.7.0, 2.7.1

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-01/msg00009.html
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4761/
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1283.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1284.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2761
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-01/msg00009.html
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4761/
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1283.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1284.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2761

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