Is CVE-2014-3248 being actively exploited?

CVE-2014-3248 is not currently listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2014-3248?

CVE-2014-3248 has a CVSS 2.0 base score of 6.2 (MEDIUM).

CVE-2014-3248

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.2EPSS 0.5%EU EUVD

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.

Key facts

CVSS score: 6.2 (v2.0)
Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS vector: AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness (CWE): CWE-17
EPSS score: 0.5% (46th percentile)
In CISA KEV: No
In EU EUVD: Yes (EUVD-2017-0196)
Published: November 16, 2014
NVD last modified: June 17, 2026
Status: Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2017-0196 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

puppet / facter
puppet / facter
puppet / facter
puppet / facter
puppet / facter
puppet / facter
puppet / facter
puppet / facter
puppet / facter
puppet / hiera
puppet / marionette collective
puppet / puppet
puppet / puppet enterprise
puppetlabs / facter

References

http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3248(Vendor Advisory)
http://rowediness.com/2014/06/13/cve-2014-3248-a-little-problem-with-puppet/(Exploit, Technical Description)
http://secunia.com/advisories/59197(Technical Description)
http://secunia.com/advisories/59200(Technical Description)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68035(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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