CVE-2012-1989

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telnet.rb in Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.13 and Puppet Enterprise (PE) 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allows local use

telnet.rb in Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.13 and Puppet Enterprise (PE) 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the NET::Telnet connection log (/tmp/out.log).

LOW · CVSS 3.6 EPSS 0.00058

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Affected Packages

Language-ecosystem packages (from OSV) tied to this CVE, with the version that fixes it - the dependency-level detail NVD doesn’t carry.

RubyGems puppet LOW fixed in 2.7.13

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Scoring & Timeline

3.6

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

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v2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Published to NVD27 Jun 2012 · 06:55 PM

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Vendor Advisories

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.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-05/msg00012.html

http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13606

http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.7.13

http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1989/Vendor Advisory

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

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

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

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

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

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74797

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

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