CVE-2012-1989

Severity: low (CVSS 3.6 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: 2012-06-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

telnet.rb in Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.13 and Puppet Enterprise (PE) 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the NET::Telnet connection log (/tmp/out.log).

Affected products

Puppet Agent: 2.7.3, 2.7.4, 2.7.5, 2.7.6, 2.7.8, 2.7.9 (+3)
Puppet Enterprise: 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4, 2.0.0 (+3)
Puppetlabs Puppet: 2.7.0, 2.7.1

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-05/msg00012.html
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13606
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.7.13
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1989/
http://secunia.com/advisories/48743
http://secunia.com/advisories/48748
http://secunia.com/advisories/49136
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1419-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52975
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74797
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15087408
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-05/msg00012.html

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