SB2013102601 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Puppet Enterprise

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Cross-site request forgery (CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4963)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website.

2) Code Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4957)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.

The dashboard report in Puppet Enterprise before 3.0.1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary YAML code via a crafted report-specific type.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4963
• http://osvdb.org/98639
• http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4957
• http://secunia.com/advisories/55362
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/88089