CVE-2012-3866

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-08-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

lib/puppet/defaults.rb in Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.18, and Puppet Enterprise before 2.5.2, uses 0644 permissions for last_run_report.yaml, which allows local users to obtain sensitive configuration information by leveraging access to the puppet master server to read this file.

Affected products

Puppet Agent: 2.7.2, 2.7.3, 2.7.4, 2.7.5, 2.7.6, 2.7.8 (+7)
Puppet Enterprise: through 2.5.1
Puppetlabs Puppet: through 2.7.17; 2.7.0, 2.7.1

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00036.html
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3866/
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=839135
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/fd44bf5e6d0d360f6a493d663b653c121fa83c3f
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00036.html
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3866/
http://secunia.com/advisories/50014
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2511
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1506-1

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