XSS in Puppet Dashboard

CVE-2012-0891

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Puppet Dashboard 1.0 before 1.2.5 and Enterprise 1.0 before 1.2.5 and 2.x before 2.0.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified fields.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2014-03-14 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.009 (59.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 60th percentile — 59.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.009 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Puppet Dashboard — versions 1.0.0, 1.0.3, 1.0.4
Puppet Enterprise — versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-0891 (Vendor Advisory)