CVE-2012-1986
LOW severity · CVSS 2.1 · CWE-264
2.1CVSS LOW
Summary
Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.15 and 2.7.x before 2.7.13, and Puppet Enterprise (PE) Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allows remote authenticated users with an authorized SSL key and certain permissions on the puppet master to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack in conjunction with a crafted REST request for a file in a filebucket.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityHigh
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%
AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1986/Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48743Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48748Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/079227.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/079289.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080003.html
- http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13511
- http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.6.15