Advisories for Gem/Mcollective-Client package

2017

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

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Puppet Enterprise, Puppet, Facter, Hiera, and Mcollective, when running with Ruby 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.