{"id":"CVE-2010-0156","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2010-0156","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T18:33:27.085Z","title":"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.","description":"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.","published":"2010-03-03T19:30:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:15:35.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":3.3,"severity":"LOW","vector":"AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-59"],"affected":["puppet/puppet"],"epss":{"score":0.00325,"percentile":0.25342,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.33%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/4401823f6cbf6087","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/73cd1b2896d986c2","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036083.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036166.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/38766","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502881","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2010-0156","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/4401823f6cbf6087","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/73cd1b2896d986c2","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036083.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036166.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/38766","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502881","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2010-0156","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-0156","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}