Path Traversal in Puppet
CVE-2011-3848
Directory traversal vulnerability in Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.10 and 2.7.x before 2.7.4 allows remote attackers to write X.509 Certificate Signing Request (CSR) to arbitrary locations via (1) a double-encoded key parameter in the URI in 2.7.x, (2) the CN in the Subject of a CSR in 2.6 and 0.25.
Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.011 (64.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 65th percentile — 64.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Puppet — versions 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2
- Puppetlabs Puppet — versions 2.7.0, 2.7.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2314 (vendor-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-10/msg00033.html (vendor-advisory)
- groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/e57ce2740feb9406 (Patch)
- puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3848
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1217-1 (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/46628 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)