CVE-2013-4956

Severity: low (CVSS 3.6 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: 2013-08-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Puppet Module Tool (PMT), as used 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, installs modules with weak permissions if those permissions were used when the modules were originally built, which might allow local users to read or modify those modules depending on the original permissions.

Affected products

Puppet Agent: 2.7.2, 2.7.3, 2.7.4, 2.7.5, 2.7.6, 2.7.7 (+15)
Puppet Enterprise: 2.8.0, 2.8.1, 2.8.2, 3.0.0
Puppetlabs Puppet: 2.7.0, 2.7.1, 3.2.0

References

http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4956/
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://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4956/
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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