GMS-2014-5: Arbitrary Code Execution

May 6, 2014

This package is vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. The current directory ‘.’ is on the load path for Ruby. If users create ruby source files with names that correspond to those that hiera trys to load, it may result in loading and the execution of these files.

References

github.com/puppetlabs/hiera/commit/5b71548ca9ea9ced460b2970c3e8fb483b495806

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