CVE-2012-1054

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-05-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.14 and 2.7.x before 2.7.11, and Puppet Enterprise (PE) Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x before 2.0.3, when managing a user login file with the k5login resource type, allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on .k5login.

Affected products

Puppet Agent: 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.6.5 (+17)
Puppet Enterprise: 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4, 2.0.0 (+2)
Puppetlabs Puppet: 2.7.0, 2.7.1
Puppetlabs Puppet Enterprise Users: 1.0, 1.1

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00003.html
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12460
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.6.14
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1054/
http://secunia.com/advisories/48157
http://secunia.com/advisories/48161
http://secunia.com/advisories/48166
http://secunia.com/advisories/48290
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1372-1
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2419
http://www.osvdb.org/79496
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52158

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