CVE-2012-1986

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% 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 2.6.15 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 an authorized SSL key and certain permissions on the puppet master to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack in conjunction with a crafted REST request for a file in a filebucket.

Affected products

Puppet Agent: 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.6.5 (+19)
Puppet Enterprise: 2.5.0, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4 (+3)
Puppetlabs Puppet: 2.7.0, 2.7.1
Puppetlabs Puppet Enterprise Users: 1.0, 1.1

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/079227.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/079289.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080003.html
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13511
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.6.15
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1986/
http://secunia.com/advisories/48743
http://secunia.com/advisories/48748
http://secunia.com/advisories/48789
http://secunia.com/advisories/49136
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1419-1
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2451

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