CVE-2010-0156: Puppet

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Puppet 0.24.x before 0.24.9 and 0.25.x before 0.25.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) /tmp/daemonout, (2) /tmp/puppetdoc.txt, (3) /tmp/puppetdoc.tex, or (4) /tmp/puppetdoc.aux temporary file.

Affected products

• Puppet Puppet: version 0.24.3 only; version 0.24.4 only; version 0.24.5 only; version 0.24.6 only; version 0.24.7 only; version 0.24.8 only; …

Published 2010-03-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.