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CVE-2012-3865

Directory traversal vulnerability in lib/puppet/reports/store.rb in Puppet before 2.6.17 and 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Pu

Directory traversal vulnerability in lib/puppet/reports/store.rb in Puppet before 2.6.17 and 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, when Delete is enabled in auth.conf, allows remote authenticated users to delete arbitrary files on the puppet master server via a .. (dot dot) in a node name.

LOW · CVSS 3.5 EPSS 0.01176
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  • Public exploit or PoC is available
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0
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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

5
puppetall versions
puppetlabs puppet<= 2.7.17
puppetlabs puppetall versions
puppetlabs puppet<= 2.6.16
puppet enterprise<= 2.5.1
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Affected Packages

1
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 2.6.17
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Public Exploits & PoCs

2
pocgithub.com · 554eefc55f57ed2b76e5ee04d8f194d36f6ee67fgithub.com
pocgithub.com · d80478208d79a3e6d6cb1fbc525e24817fe8c4c6github.com
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Scoring & Timeline

3.5
LOW · 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:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Published to NVD06 Aug 2012 · 04:55 PM
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Vendor Advisories

3
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10581-1
rhsaRHSA-2012:1542Moderate
usnUSN-1506-1
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References & Sources

7
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-security-announce/2012-08/msg00006.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00036.html
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3865/Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/50014
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2511
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1506-1
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