CVE-2012-3865

Severity: low (CVSS 3.5 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-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in lib/puppet/reports/store.rb in Puppet before 2.6.17 and 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, when Delete is enabled in auth.conf, allows remote authenticated users to delete arbitrary files on the puppet master server via a .. (dot dot) in a node name.

Affected products

Puppet Agent: 2.7.2, 2.7.3, 2.7.4, 2.7.5, 2.7.6, 2.7.8 (+23)
Puppet Enterprise: through 2.5.1
Puppetlabs Puppet: through 2.7.17; 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-2012-3865/
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=839131
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/554eefc55f57ed2b76e5ee04d8f194d36f6ee67f
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/d80478208d79a3e6d6cb1fbc525e24817fe8c4c6
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-2012-3865/

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