Path Traversal in Puppet
CVE-2012-3865
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.
Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)
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: 0.019 (78.6th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 79th percentile — 78.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.019 · newest: 0.019 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Puppet — versions 2.7.2, 2.7.3, 2.7.4
- Puppet Enterprise
- Puppetlabs Puppet — versions 2.7.0, 2.7.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00006.html (vendor-advisory)
- github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/554eefc55f57ed2b76e5ee04d8f194d36f6ee67f (Exploit, Patch)
- www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2511 (vendor-advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1506-1 (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/50014 (third-party-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00036.html (vendor-advisory)
- github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/d80478208d79a3e6d6cb1fbc525e24817fe8c4c6 (Exploit, Patch)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
- puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3865/ (Vendor Advisory)