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CVE-2012-1987

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
29/05/2012
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in 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 agent SSL keys to (1) cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a REST request to a stream that triggers a thread block, as demonstrated using CVE-2012-1986 and /dev/random; or (2) cause a denial of service (filesystem consumption) via crafted REST requests that use "a marshaled form of a Puppet::FileBucket::File object" to write to arbitrary file locations.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 3.50 LOW
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
3.50
Severity 2.0
LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:2.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:2.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:2.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:2.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:2.6.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:2.6.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:2.6.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:2.6.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:2.6.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:2.6.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:2.6.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:2.6.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:2.6.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:2.6.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:puppet:puppet:2.6.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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