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CVE-2011-3848

Directory traversal vulnerability in Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.10 and 2.7.x before 2.7.4 allows remote attackers to write

Directory traversal vulnerability in Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.10 and 2.7.x before 2.7.4 allows remote attackers to write X.509 Certificate Signing Request (CSR) to arbitrary locations via (1) a double-encoded key parameter in the URI in 2.7.x, (2) the CN in the Subject of a CSR in 2.6 and 0.25.

MEDIUM · CVSS 5 EPSS 0.00433
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Weakness Classification

CWE-22Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
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Affected Products & Versions

2
puppetall versions
puppetlabs puppetall versions
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Scoring & Timeline

5
MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Published to NVD27 Oct 2011 · 08:55 PM
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Vendor Advisories

2
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10581-1
usnUSN-1217-1
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References & Sources

6
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-10/msg00033.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/46628Vendor Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2314
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1217-1
https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/e57ce2740feb9406Patch
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3848
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