CVE-2012-1986

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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 b

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.

LOW · CVSS 2.1 EPSS 0.00374

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2.1

LOW · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org

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v2 Vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Published to NVD29 May 2012 · 08:55 PM

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Vendor Advisories

rhsaRHSA-2012:1542Moderate

usnUSN-1419-1

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References & Sources

Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.

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

http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1986/Vendor Advisory

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http://secunia.com/advisories/48743Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/48748Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/48789Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/49136Vendor Advisory

http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1419-1

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2451

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52975

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74794

https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/14523305

https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15087408

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