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CVE-2012-3864

MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4 · Information disclosure
4CVSS MEDIUM

Summary

Puppet before 2.6.17 and 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files on the puppet master server by leveraging an arbitrary user's certificate and private key in a GET request.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required
User interaction
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%

AV:N/AC:L/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.

Official patch: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/10f6cb8969b4d5a933b333ecb01ce3696b1d57d4 ↗