CVE-2012-3864

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-08-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Puppet before 2.6.17 and 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files on the puppet master server by leveraging an arbitrary user's certificate and private key in a GET request.

Affected products

Puppet Agent: 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.6.5 (+25)
Puppet Enterprise: through 2.5.1
Puppetlabs Puppet: through 2.6.16; 2.7.0, 2.7.1

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00006.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00036.html
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3864/
http://secunia.com/advisories/50014
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2511
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1506-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839130
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/10f6cb8969b4d5a933b333ecb01ce3696b1d57d4
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/c3c7462e4066bf3a563987a402bf3ddf278bcd87
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00006.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00036.html
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3864/

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