CVE-2013-4969 (GCVE-0-2013-4969)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-01-07 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 16:59
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Puppet before 3.3.3 and 3.4 before 3.4.1 and Puppet Enterprise (PE) before 2.8.4 and 3.1 before 3.1.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on unspecified files.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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|---|---|
| http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2831 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
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| http://secunia.com/advisories/56253 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4969 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2077-1 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
Date Public
2013-12-26 00:00
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- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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