Vulnerability in Puppet
CVE-2012-1987
Unspecified vulnerability in Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.15 and 2.7.x before 2.7.13, and Puppet Enterprise (PE) Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allows remote authenticated users with agent SSL keys to (1) cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a REST request to a stream that triggers a thread block, as demonstrated using CVE-2012-1986 and /dev/random; or (2) cause a denial of service (filesystem consumption) via crafted REST requests that use "a marshaled form of a Puppet::FileBucket::File object" to write to arbitrary file locations.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 3.5 (Low). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.026 (84.4th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 84th percentile — 84.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.026 · newest: 0.026 · change: 0.000
Affected products
References
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74794 (Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1987/ (Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13552 (Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1419-1 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/079227.html (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
- hermes.opensuse.org/messages/14523305 (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
- secunia.com/advisories/48743 (Broken Link, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1987/hotfixes/ (Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes (Broken Link)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/079289.html (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)