Privilege escalation via symlink attack on .k5login in Puppet

CVE-2012-1054 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.14 and 2.7.x before 2.7.11, and Puppet Enterprise (PE) Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x before 2.0.3, when managing a user login file with the k5login resource type, allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on .k5login.

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