Vulnerability Report

CVE-2011-3848

Title: Puppetlabs Puppet Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2011-3848.

CWE Category CWE-22
Published Date Oct 27, 2011
Modified Date Apr 29, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.43%

Vulnerability Summary

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.

Impacted Vendors

R
reductivelabs 1
P
puppet 1
P
puppetlabs 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-10/msg00033.html http://secunia.com/advisories/46628 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2314 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1217-1 https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/e57ce2740feb9406 https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3848 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-10/msg00033.html http://secunia.com/advisories/46628 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2314 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1217-1 https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce/browse_thread/thread/e57ce2740feb9406 https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3848
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2011-3848 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.