Puppet allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack
Low severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
Oct 24, 2017
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Nov 10, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Jun 27, 2012
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Oct 24, 2017
Reviewed
Jun 16, 2020
Last updated
Nov 10, 2023
telnet.rb
in Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.13 and Puppet Enterprise (PE) 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the NET::Telnet connection log (/tmp/out.log
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