facter 1.6.3

2 security vulnerabilities found in version 1.6.3

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects facter, hiera, mcollective-client, and puppet

medium severity CVE-2014-3248
medium severity CVE-2014-3248
Patched versions: ~> 1.7.6, >= 2.0.2

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Puppet Enterprise 2.8 before 2.8.7, Puppet before 2.7.26 and 3.x before 3.6.2, Facter 1.6.x and 2.x before 2.0.2, Hiera before 1.3.4, and Mcollective before 2.5.2, when running with Ruby 1.9.1 or earlier, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse file in the current working directory, as demonstrated using (1) rubygems/defaults/operating_system.rb, (2) Win32API.rb, (3) Win32API.so, (4) safe_yaml.rb, (5) safe_yaml/deep.rb, or (6) safe_yaml/deep.so; or (7) operatingsystem.rb, (8) operatingsystem.so, (9) osfamily.rb, or (10) osfamily.so in puppet/confine.

Puppet Labs Facter allows local users to obtains sensitive Amazon EC2 IAM instance metadata by reading a fact for an Amazon EC2 node.

low severity CVE-2015-1426
low severity CVE-2015-1426
Patched versions: >= 2.4.1
Unaffected versions: < 1.6.0

Puppet Labs Facter 1.6.0 through 2.4.0 allows local users to obtains sensitive Amazon EC2 IAM instance metadata by reading a fact for an Amazon EC2 node.

No officially reported memory leakage issues detected.


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