CVE-2013-4761: Puppet

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unspecified vulnerability in Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.23 and 3.2.x before 3.2.4, and Puppet Enterprise 2.8.x before 2.8.3 and 3.0.x before 3.0.1, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Ruby programs from the master via the resource_type service. NOTE: this vulnerability can only be exploited utilizing unspecified "local file system access" to the Puppet Master.

Affected products

• Puppet Puppet: version 3.2.1 only; version 3.2.2 only; version 3.2.3 only; version 2.7.2 only
• Puppet Puppet Enterprise: version 2.8.0 only; version 2.8.1 only; version 2.8.2 only; version 3.0.0 only
• Puppetlabs Puppet: version 3.2.0 only; version 2.7.0 only; version 2.7.1 only

Published 2013-08-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.