CVE-2012-1988 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2012-1988

Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.15 and 2.7.x before 2.7.13, and Puppet...

Vulnerability Description

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 agent SSL keys and file-creation permissions on the puppet master to execute arbitrary commands by creating a file whose full pathname contains shell metacharacters, then performing a filebucket request.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

puppet, puppet enterprise, fedora, debian linux, ubuntu linux
Vulnerable Versions:
2.6.0, 2.7.0, 1.2.0, 1.0, 1.1, 15, 16, 17, 6.0, 7.0, 10.04, 11.04, 11.10

Timeline

Official Publish: May 29th, 2012
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.