Is CVE-2014-3248 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2014-3248 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2014-3248?

CVE-2014-3248 has a CVSS v2 base score of 6.2 (MEDIUM).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2014-3248?

CVE-2014-3248 has an EPSS score of 0.54% (41th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2014-3248?

Upgrade facter on debian 11 to 2.0.1-1 or later. Fixes are available for 3 affected products.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2014-3248

MEDIUM

6.2

CVSS v2

NVD

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Puppet Enterprise 2.8 before 2.8.7, Puppet before 2.7.26 and 3.x before 3.6.2, Facter 1.6.x and 2.x before 2.0.2, Hiera before 1.3.4, and Mcollective before 2.5.2, when running with Ruby 1.9.1 or earlier, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse file in the current working directory, as demonstrated using (1) rubygems/defaults/operating_system.rb, (2) Win32API.rb, (3) Win32API.so, (4) safe_yaml.rb, (5) safe_yaml/deep.rb, or (6) safe_yaml/deep.so; or (7) operatingsystem.rb, (8) operatingsystem.so, (9) osfamily.rb, or (10) osfamily.so in puppet/confine.

CWE-17

How to fix

Remediation Available

facterDebian

Fixed in:2.0.1-1CVE-2014-3248

puppetUbuntu

Fixed in:3.4.3-1ubuntu1.2USN-3308-1

puppet-commonUbuntu

Fixed in:3.4.3-1ubuntu1.2USN-3308-1

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

0.54%probability of exploitation in 30 days

41stpercentile

Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 41% of all known CVEs.

References

Exploit1

rowediness.com

Vendor Advisory1

puppetlabs.com

Third-Party Advisory1

securityfocus.com

Technical Description2

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-17 vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2015-0240	High	10.0	88%	-	Fix
CVE-2015-3183	Medium	5.0	73%	-	Fix
CVE-2014-9222	High	10.0	64%	-	-
CVE-2015-4620	High	7.8	38%	-	Fix
CVE-2014-9707	High	7.5	28%	-	-
CVE-2015-2526	Medium	5.0	24%	-	-

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-05-06.