CVE-2011-3848

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-10-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

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.

Affected products

Puppet Agent: 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.6.5 (+6)
Puppetlabs Puppet: 2.7.0, 2.7.1

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-10/msg00033.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/46628
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/e57ce2740feb9406
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3848
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-10/msg00033.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/46628
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/e57ce2740feb9406
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3848

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