CVE-2012-1986 (GCVE-0-2012-1986)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-05-29 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 19:17
VLAI
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2319 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
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http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1986/ x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/14523305 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://secunia.com/advisories/48743 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Re… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13511 x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/49136 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52975 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/48748 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2451 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15087408 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://secunia.com/advisories/48789 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Date Public
2012-04-11 00:00
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