CVE-2013-4956: Puppet

Low severity, CVSS 3.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Puppet Module Tool (PMT), as used 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, installs modules with weak permissions if those permissions were used when the modules were originally built, which might allow local users to read or modify those modules depending on the original permissions.

Affected products

• Puppet Puppet: version 2.7.2 only; version 2.7.3 only; version 2.7.4 only; version 2.7.5 only; version 2.7.6 only; version 2.7.7 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 2.7.0 only; version 2.7.1 only; version 3.2.0 only

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